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If you'd like to know about the the Bruton Sisters and where to find more of their art around San Francisco, the Bruton Sisters’ have a mural at the zoo: https://t.co/fIP6nGErQk
and the Cirque Bar at the Fairmont: https://t.co/p4I66K6Pgz
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
In 1963, the United States launched a government-funded Supersonic Transport (SST) program to compete with the joint British and French Concorde project. After much testing, Boeing SST’s design won the U.S. airframe contract. #SSTFirstGeneration
This tweet was posted on March 21, 2023.
In a 2004 interview, reflecting upon how dancing led to a lifelong passion for aviation, she said: "When you get onstage, and you're waiting for your intro…you have the same butterflies you have when you taxi up to get your clearance to fly, especially if it's instrument."
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
She married her husband, Ervin Nutter in 1965; he owned Elano Corporation, an aerospace engineering firm and supplier. Zoe Dell became president of Elano’s small aircraft division and a company pilot. #WomenInAviation #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
While at Elano, she designed an aircraft manifold that, despite initial rejections by aircraft engine manufacturers, eventually became standard equipment on many models, adding power, reducing engine maintenance requirements, and enabling a quieter, better-heated cockpit.
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter rose to fame during the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held at Treasure Island, where she who worked as a promotional “theme girl” and later in life became educator, marketer, commercial pilot, and philanthropist. #52Objects
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
Zoe Dell helped to organize the Monterey Bay Chapter of @TheNinetyNines in 1965. She and her husband are credited as founding members of the @NAHF in Dayton, OH. She served as their first female president and was inducted in 2008 as a Living Legend of Aviation. #WomenInAviation
This tweet was posted on March 20, 2023.
"Mrs. Robinson" features a corps de ballet of women, who move with the crisp efficiency of ideal mid-century femininity—and express the crippling impact of maintaining it. As the piece unfolds, the domestic goddesses are swept into the feminist movement in waves. #SFBalletAt90
This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.
A San Francisco native, Joan Brown was recognized in her career as a major talent working in the style that became identified as Bay Area Figurative.
This painting refers to a personal journey, set against a San Francisco skyline. #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth #JoanBrown
This tweet was posted on March 29, 2023.
Air Afrique was multinational African airline, based in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Founded #onthisday in 1961, the airline began as a joint venture of Air France and Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) and eleven former French colonies. #AirAfrique #AvGeek #TravelTuesday
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2023.
Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, Katherine Stinson was the fourth woman in the United States to obtain a pilot’s certification. She first flew in 1911 and was licensed in 1912 at age 21. Stinson quickly became a star attraction at air meets. #EnduranceEngines #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2023.
Marston is drawn to complex female characters, including Mrs. Robinson of the “The Graduate,” the older woman who seduces a younger man. In the ballet "Mrs. Robinson" Marston reimagined "The Graduate" from Mrs. Robinson’s perspective to rewrite Robinson's destiny. #SFBalletAt90
This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.
Stinson became the first woman in the United States to perform an aerial loop and continued to perform the stunt hundreds of times without a mishap. #EnduranceEngines #KatherineStinson #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 28, 2023.
The charge for a round-trip Air France Concorde ticket from Washington, DC to Paris was $1,654 (more than $8,700 today when adjusted for inflation). In November 1977, Concorde service was added to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
#SSTTimeMachine #Concorde
This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.
While in a bookstore, choreographer Cathy Marston came across Charles Webb’s 1963 novel “The Graduate.” Realizing that the book was written in San Francisco, Marston immediately thought, “this is the piece that I need to make for San Francisco Ballet.” @SFBallet #SFBalletAt90
This tweet was posted on March 24, 2023.
*Although he died nearly 40 years before the Nazi party was founded, Wagner’s antisemitic publications and the nationalistic nature of his operas influenced Nazi ideology. Whether his views are incidental to his music or reason for invalidation remains a subject of dispute.
This tweet was posted on March 30, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals.
#ToSurviveOnThisShore #TDOV
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2023.
Happy anniversary to our friends at @panamhistory! Founded #onthisday in 1992 by a group of former Pan American employees, the Foundation’s mission is to preserve and promote the unique heritage of Pan American World Airways, Inc. #AvGeek #PanAm
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2023.
Kacper Kowalski is a photographer and aviator who has been observing and photographing landscapes from above for over twenty-five years. #photography #aerialphotography #KacperKowalski
This tweet was posted on April 03, 2023.
Like many post-war airlines, Aloha Airlines, based in Hawaii, started charter passenger and cargo service with a single surplus DC-3 in 1946. Originally named Trans-Pacific Airways, the airline specialized in interisland service. #Hawaii #AvGeek #AlohaAirlines
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2023.
"In the ’60s they called me a sissy. In the ’70s they called me a faggot. In the ’80s I was a queen. In the ’90s I was transgender. In the 2000s I was a woman, and now I'm just Grace." - Grace #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on June 16, 2023.
Did you know that in Skylounge configuration, United Air Lines’ Douglas DC-3 Mailiners had seats that were able to rotate? This illustration from the late 1930s shows the interior of a United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 with passengers socializing and playing games. #52Objects
This tweet was posted on June 20, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals.
#ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on June 16, 2023.
Gandari began assisting Chikuni on the weekends and was soon creating his own sculptures. Gandari shared a workshop with a fellow artist until joining the Chitungwiza Art Centre in 2001. #ZimbabweSculpture
This tweet was posted on April 04, 2023.
Gandari tries to capture the emotion associated with daily life and events. In his sculpture, “Kneeling Woman,” Gandari skillfully leaves the hair unpolished to create a beautiful texture that contrasts with the body’s rich green sheen. #ZimbabweSculpture
This tweet was posted on April 04, 2023.
In 2022, SFO Museum presented "Red Tails at Ramitelli," photographed by Toni Frissell, a photo essay about the Tuskegee Airmen stationed in Italy during World War II. Col. Benjamin O. Davis was photographed in March 1945. https://t.co/knXhxV0UZm
This tweet was posted on June 19, 2023.
Los-Angeles-based filmmaker Ryan Maxey’s How to Make a Rainbow documents a young daughter’s unconditional love for her transgender mother over the course of two challenging years. #VideoArtsSFO #HowtoMakeaRainbow #Pride https://t.co/UtjjeyWz0I
This tweet was posted on June 15, 2023.
See “How to Make a Rainbow” by Ryan Maxey in the Video Arts Gallery, located pre-security in the International Terminal, open daily from 7am to 10pm. Learn more about this month’s films at: https://t.co/s0oA7gcWli
#VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #HowtoMakeaRainbow #RyanMaxey #Pride
This tweet was posted on June 15, 2023.
Through his lens, the landscape adopts a multitude of new meanings and associations—frozen coastlines become rhythmic and lyrical; melting ice sheets appear both microscopic and inconceivably vast; scenes of windswept tundra recall imagery of distant galaxies. #KacperKowalski
This tweet was posted on April 03, 2023.
A very special thank you to Mickey McGowan for making this exhibition possible. See “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/4G3SzOmcrE
#UnknownMuseum #MickeyMcGowan #BayArea #BayAreaHistory
This tweet was posted on June 27, 2023.
Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals.
#ToSurviveOnThisShore #Pride
This tweet was posted on June 23, 2023.
Finch affixes colored filters on LED light tubes to represent the spectral color emission of each star. For example, Betelgeuse is a very old star and appears red in the night sky. @SFAC #PublicArt #SpencerFinch #Scuplture #LED
This tweet was posted on June 30, 2023.
Founded as Varney Speed Lines in 1934, Continental Airlines expanded its domestic regional services during the 1950s & 60s. When the airline became an international carrier in the late 1960s, it launched a new corporate identity created by Saul Bass & Associates. #AirlineMealSets
This tweet was posted on June 21, 2023.
Julianna Di Giacomo (b. 1975) made her San Francisco Opera debut as Amelia Anckarström, a character that Verdi created as the third point in a fictional, ill-fated relationship between King Gustavus III and Swedish military officer Jacob Johan Anckarström. #SFOperaCentennial
This tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
