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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.

Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on March 30, 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.

Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.

McGowan started collecting as a boy, nailing bottlecaps to plywood and beachcombing for items that he attached to boards as assemblages. He moved north of San Francisco to Sausalito in 1969, and during the 1970s he made art shoes under the pseudonym Apple Cobbler. #UnknownMuseum This tweet was posted on June 27, 2023.

The extravagant costumes in the 2014 rendition of 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰, including the opulent gown worn by Di Giacomo were originally designed by American designer John Conklin (b. 1937) for a San Francisco Opera production in 1977. #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.

There is still time to sign up for our monthly post-security Opera tours. Every first Tuesday of the month at 10am, we will lead a group of visitors behind security to see “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration!” Sign up here: https://t.co/BTtcSXdt9g #SFOperaCentennial https://t.co/W6cL7aXEYq This tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.

“More than a Meal: Airline Meal Service Sets, 1960s–80s” is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/RZvuSbD00G #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek #PaxEx This tweet was posted on June 21, 2023.

“Tell the young people going through transitions to never give up... I went through periods of giving up, but I had to push myself. I want to take care of and appreciate what life is offering me as a man. I’m living the life that I lost.” - Tony #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on June 23, 2023.

From an early age, Albert (Al) Mueller, Jr. loved travel, specifically airline travel. Al spent most of his working years as a travel agent and began collecting airline memorabilia at the age of eleven after flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco. #AvGeek #Blog This tweet was posted on June 29, 2023.

“But what does it mean to have a trans man in lesbian space? This image was posted on August 16, 2023.

Viola Frey was born on this day Lodi, California in 1933. This image was posted on August 15, 2023. #sfac #publicart #violafrey