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This Pan American Airways poster from circa 1939 by the artist Frank McIntosh advertises travel from San Francisco to Hawaii on a Boeing 314. The Honolulu Clipper entered service in early 1939 and completed the 2,400-mile trip from SF to Honolulu in 16 to 20 hours. #52posters
This tweet was posted on February 26, 2024.
@MOFBACN In the 1930s, Honolulu was the first stop on a longer Pan American route that also stopped at Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila. Eventually, the route was expanded with service to Hong Kong. Check out our "China Clipper" exhibit for more info! https://t.co/6RPJMi2l9Z
This tweet was posted on February 27, 2024.
Like many maritime traditions, it was adopted by the aviation industry. On transoceanic flights, certificates were given out to passengers commemorating a crossing of the equator. How will you be spending your extra day?
This tweet was posted on February 29, 2024.
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 March 01, 2024.
In the 1930s, the CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) awarded Pan American World Airways (PAA) exclusive rights to serve international destinations. After a long & hard-fought battle with the CAB & PAA, TWA (Trans World Airlines) was awarded certification to cross the Atlantic in 1945.
This tweet was posted on March 05, 2024.
Malaysian-based writer and director Philip Rom collaborated with Mesh Minds to create “Plastik,” in which a young girl looks through a telescope she made from a plastic bottle, gaining insight into the troubling problem of plastic pollution.
#VideoArtsSFO #Plastik https://t.co/MqhJziySJg
This tweet was posted on July 06, 2023.
Not only did Beverly Carlson take a flight on Leap Day during a Leap Year, she also flew across the equator on a Qantas Empire Airways Boeing 707. An old maritime shipboard tradition was to celebrate crewmembers' and passengers' first passages over the equator. #LeapDay
This tweet was posted on February 29, 2024.
Our newest exhibition "A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection" is now on display in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall. On display, are 18 outstanding examples of airliner models from SFO Museum’s aviation collection.
This tweet was posted on March 04, 2024.
“The activism keeps me young. It really does. But I love my age, and I love when I can mentor somebody else. I love it because – and I never thought I'd say this – my age gives me a perspective that youth denied me.” Alexis, 64, Chicago, IL, 2014 #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on March 01, 2024.
In 1943, Asawa received a scholarship to go to Milwaukee State Teachers College in Wisconsin (now @UWM). However, Asawa was denied a prerequisite internship because of racism against Japanese Americans. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #RuthAsawa
This tweet was posted on July 11, 2023.
Persona_1” represents the artist. A virtual gaming character, with a name, age, job, and friends, appears in “Persona_2.” #StudentArt #Constitution
This tweet was posted on July 07, 2023.
The Boeing 307 “Stratoliner” was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. This 1940s postcard shows a weather chart advertising the “Stratoliner” which was able to fly at an altitude of over 30,000 feet, above bad weather and turbulence. #52Objects #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on July 10, 2023.
Arnaldo Pomodoro first trained as an architect and was also a jewelry designer prior to becoming a sculptor. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt
This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.
Marquis then places the paper into the glacial runoff and distributes nearby rocks, ice chunks, and handfuls of glacial silt across the receptive surface. Under the sun, the cyanotype exposes, and the melting edge of a glacier draws itself. #JonathanMarquis #Downwaste
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2023.
She was a lifelong advocate for art education, and in 1982, she helped found a public arts high school in San Francisco, renamed Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #RuthAsawa
This tweet was posted on July 11, 2023.
The exposed area of “Cilindro Costruito” reveals a complex, multi-faceted interiority that contrasts with the highly polished, smooth surface.
#ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt
This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.
Tokyo-based director and animator Hideki Inaba’s “Flow“ combines 2D animation with 3D effects to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of nature’s constant state of flux. #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/tDYdumG0pZ
This tweet was posted on July 13, 2023.
“Cilindro Costruito”(Constructed Cylinder) is a sixteen-foot tall columnar form with an erratic vertical fissure, frozen in the process of eroding, that runs the length of the sculpture. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt
This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.
Celebrated Oakland-born Chinese American artist Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was a master of watercolor landscape paintings. In the 1970s and 80s, his watercolor paintings of famous landmarks and cities graced the covers of Pan American’s first and business class menus. #52Objects
This tweet was posted on July 17, 2023.
Directed by the Paris-based duo öM, "Since I Learned to Walk" explores a team of young French women athletes whose passion for football, the most played sport in the world, feels like a “dance” of eleven teammates or sisters.
#VideoArtsSFO #WomensWorldCup https://t.co/Q63iDE8tR8
This tweet was posted on July 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 July 18, 2023.
To make a cyanotype for "Downwaste," Marquis coats a sheet of paper with cyanotype emulsion and hikes with it in a lightproof container through Glacier National Park to the melting edge of one of the twenty-six remaining glaciers. #JonathanMarquis #Downwaste #photography
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2023.
menu: Pan American World Airways; 1986
Gift of the Pan Am Association
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https://t.co/9YIfKCQEEP
This tweet was posted on July 17, 2023.
“I hosted a one-day retreat for transgender and genderqueer people about spiritual practices and sources of strength. It was a really positive experience, seeing people feel welcome in that space. I am looking forward to continuing this work" - David #ToSurviveOnThisShore
This tweet was posted on July 18, 2023.
See “June Schwarcz: Unconventional Enamels,” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/UwJlkZOK5e
A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible.
#UnconventionalEnamels
This tweet was posted on July 21, 2023.
What a beautiful bag for your motion discomfort! Did you know we have over 600 airsickness bags on our online database? From advertisements, instructions, patterns, or logos, these bags feature a wide array of graphic design. See more: https://t.co/s1VJFyvHqH
#52Objects #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on July 24, 2023.
Filmed at Les Caryatides, Guyancourt, France, French director Christopher Hanany paints a striking portrait of Sofia Ramdan, a woman born without arms, who explains that “beauty is equivalent to self-acceptance.”
#VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/9iW6yaxGEA
This tweet was posted on July 27, 2023.
After finalizing a pattern in paper, Schwarcz crafted the shape from thin copper foil by cutting, folding, gathering, and stitching with copper wire—almost treating the material like fabric. #UnconventionalEnamels #JuneSchwarcz #5WomenArtists #InternationalWomensDay
This tweet was posted on March 08, 2024.
Alicia McCarthy is a key member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990’s in San Francisco and drew inspiration from graffiti, street art, and the use of non-traditional materials. #AliciaMcCarthy #5WomenArtists
This tweet was posted on March 06, 2024.
In creating “MMXX,” McCarthy worked closely with Lineman Architectural Glass in Oakland to translate her distinctive aesthetics of repetition, variation, and chance into glass using a combination of techniques.
#AliciaMcCarthy #5WomenArtists
This tweet was posted on March 06, 2024.
A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See "Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 https://t.co/y7scUBG0d4
#KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.
A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See “June Schwarcz: Unconventional Enamels,” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/UwJlkZOK5e
#UnconventionalEnamels #JuneSchwarcz #5WomenArtists
This tweet was posted on March 08, 2024.
After weaving a linen sample, Sekimachi realized she could produce 3D forms using a nylon monofilament material (now commonly known as fishing line) that DuPont introduced in 1959.
#KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.
Fiber artist Kay Sekimachi’s series of monofilament sculptures began in 1963 as an experiment to weave a wall hanging in multiple, translucent layers. https://t.co/y7scUBG0d4
#KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth
This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.