Jetsonorama

Chip Thomas, a.k.a. jetsonorama, is a photographer, public artist, and physician who worked in a small clinic on the Navajo nation for thirty-six years, where he coordinated the Painted Desert Project. He describes it as a community-building dialogue that manifested as a constellation of murals painted by artists from the Navajo nation as well as from around the world.

Thomas’s own public artwork consists of enlarged black- and-white photographs pasted onto structures along the roadside, primarily in the Navajo nation. His motivation is to reflect back to the community the love they’ve shared with him over the years.

Thomas was a 2018 Kindle Project gift recipient, and in 2020 he was one of a handful of artists chosen by the UN to recognize the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding. Selected artists were asked to generate work that contrib- utes to the envisioning and shaping of a more resilient and sustainable future.