Commissions
Commissions at MSP introduce bold, site-specific artworks into the airport, transforming everyday spaces into moments of wonder, reflection, and connection. Working with artists at a range of scales and career stages, Arts@MSP integrates permanent and temporary public art throughout the terminals, inviting travelers to experience the airport in unexpected ways.
The Aurora is a 29-foot-high glass and metal sculpture that is suspended through an oval opening between the ticketing and baggage claim levels in Terminal 1. It’s a twisting aerial wave of more than 20,000 aluminum rings that house over 1,900 hand-blown glass bulbs, each with a set of LEDs within. The Aurora is the creation of Jen Lewin, an internationally renowned new media and interactive sculptor who led a team to hoist the sculpture into place in fall 2020, and then finished the final phases of the installation in March 2021.
