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In the 1970s, George S. Gordon negotiated with the world-renowned artist #AlexanderCalder to paint an entire Douglas DC-8-62 for #Braniff, transforming it into a flying work of art named Flying Colors of South America. #AdvertisingBraniff This tweet was posted on June 12, 2018.
In the early 1960s, enamel artist June Schwarcz's husband Leroy, a mechanical engineer, constructed an electroplating tank so she could plate raised designs to fill with champlevé and cloisonné enamels. #UnconventionalEnamels #JuneSchwarcz This tweet was posted on February 02, 2024.
In the early 1970s, #United Airlines commissioned #aviation artist Nixon Galloway to create watercolor paintings depicting each aircraft flown by the airline from the beginning of the company’s history. #themainline #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 11, 2017.
In the early 1970s, United Airlines commissioned aviation artist Nixon Galloway, to create a series of #watercolor #paintings depicting each aircraft flown by the airline and its subsidiaries from the beginning of the company’s history. #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 21, 2019.
In the late 1960s, Pan American World Airways commissioned renowned psychedelic artist @Peter_Max to create a promotional poster that showed the new Boeing 747 taking off through rainbow rays of the solar system. Do you have a favorite airline advertisement? #WidebodyAV This tweet was posted on February 10, 2020.
In the mid-1970s, the advertising firm of Dillon, Gordon, Hawkey & Shortt took over #Braniff International's brand image. Gordon negotiated with artist Alexander Calder to paint an entire Douglas DC-8-62. #AdvertisingBraniff This tweet was posted on January 19, 2018.
In “Hyper-Natural Bay Area”, artist #RobertMinervini (@Rob_Minervini) considers what defining characteristics make a city distinctive and offers a window onto his version of San Francisco. #MuseumFromHome 📸: Ethan Kaplan photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2020.
Italian artist #LucaTombolini travels the globe in search of isolated locations and obscure landscapes. Tombolini creates shadowy nocturnal images that distort time and place in these surreal and remote locations. This tweet was posted on March 13, 2020.
Jason Peterson (b.1968) (@Jasonmpeterson) is a Chicago-based artist and art director known for his evocative and high-contrast black-and-white photographs of urban environments. #AirlineMealSets This tweet was posted on November 18, 2022.
John T. McCoy, aeronautical artist and historian, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1909. McCoy began his painting career in the early 1930s, painting portraits of private airplanes to finance his flying lessons. #AvGeek #Watercolors #JohnTMcCoy This tweet was posted on December 14, 2022.
Joyce Hsu is a Bay Area artist best known for her mechanized creatures that inhabit a fantasy world of the artist’s creation. #JoyceHsu #APAHM #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM #publicart @SFAC This tweet was posted on May 02, 2023.
Kids & Art Foundation (@kidsandartorg) is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that partners professional artists with families facing pediatric cancer for free art experiences at treatment centers. This tweet was posted on January 28, 2018.
Learn more by watching a video of the artwork’s fabrication and an interview with the artist: https://t.co/7tExvFuH6q #DanaHemenway #HarveyMilkTerminal1 #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on July 21, 2020.
London-based director Jacob Sutton employs the talents of Czech actor and dancer Kristián “Mr. Kriss” Mensa and German artist and choreographer Hannes Langolf to communicate the anticipation of a first kiss. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/FK6N5Q9u9E This tweet was posted on February 14, 2022.
Los Angeles-based artist #RobertRamirez depicts these classical #greek #urns in an expressive style that gives them a heroic presence. #Hellenic This tweet was posted on November 15, 2018.
Love rock posters? Four of the great poster artists will share their stories, 2/21! Learn more: http://t.co/RAbIzFDlXc #Free #WhenArtRocked This tweet was posted on February 05, 2015.
Made when he was 70, this bowl of mesquite by Bob Stocksdale displays the artist's hallmarks:… http://t.co/NpirEjsb5e This tweet was posted on June 04, 2014.
Makeup artist Jack Pierce helped create looks of many monsters such as Frankenstein and the Wolf Man. #KirksMonsters This tweet was posted on October 30, 2015.
Many of the Golden State’s most innovative artists and designers were women who faced great adversity due to prevailing gender inequality. The most determined pushed forward, driven by enthusiasm, strength, and creativity. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #California This tweet was posted on September 09, 2022.
Marvin Lipofsky, one of the founding members of the American studio glass movement, was the first American artist to create glass sculpture in a Chinese factory. #studioglass #contemporaryart #MarvinLipofsky This tweet was posted on January 13, 2022.
Mary sculpted, wrote for art magazines, and in the mid-1960s, she worked for the Archives of American Art on an oral history project to document San Francisco artists who participated in the Works Progress Administration’s 1935–43 Federal Art Project. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on July 10, 2022.
Ma’s House was once the heart of a community. Ma’s grandson, photographer and Shinnecock filmmaker Jeremy Dennis (@jeremynative) is on a quest to restore the family home to its central role as a community gathering place for a new generation of diverse artists. #VideoArts This tweet was posted on November 14, 2022.
Miss the #art at SFO? Leonardo Drew spoke with us during the installation of his artwork "Number 69S" in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. Learn about his artistic process and how his intricate, large-scale piece was installed. https://t.co/bcyGQK7rP8 This tweet was posted on February 05, 2021.
More art in public spaces! @SFBeautiful & @sfmta_muni are commissioning new work from Bay Area artists: http://t.co/U7tJ0OPsLI #MuniArt This tweet was posted on June 15, 2015.
Motivated by the lack of color and alternatives to leather in footwear, artist Mickey McGowan taught himself to make #shoes. #ShoesinCulture This tweet was posted on July 25, 2017.
Multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Amy K. Jenkins reveals the secret yearnings of a child for an alternate identity by tracing a decade of birthday wishes. https://t.co/avN03wlnDO #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #pride #wishes #LGBT https://t.co/hFNrlmA7o4 This tweet was posted on June 16, 2022.
Murat Brièrre (1938–88) was the first to study under visionary artist Georges Liautaud (1899–1991), and he quickly gained recognition as one of the preeminent metal sculptors of Haiti. #HaitianMetal This tweet was posted on February 28, 2024.
NOW PLAYING: "Kathryn" by Bas Berkhout. Berkhout profiles twenty-five-year-old artist Kathryn Engberg, a third-generation classical realist portrait painter whose work challenges how women are typically portrayed in the media. https://t.co/7087tVVfhN #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/KSyaGhfNRU This tweet was posted on January 06, 2020.
NOW PLAYING: "Lattice" by Maria Ferreira. Interdisciplinary artist Maria Ferreira employs microscopy to reveal the geometric gardens, iridescent waves, and spiraling sand dunes of crystal structures invisible to the unaided eye. https://t.co/bJEDuYQ0Pi #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/6evYOJsUvL This tweet was posted on October 17, 2018.
NOW PLAYING: “Emptying the Tank” by Caroline Monnet. Monnet presents a striking portrait of mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, who joins the ceremonial traits of Muay Thai with the spiritual observances of her own Chippewa ancestry. https://t.co/iHRZzBI1OL #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/z56ZJZMFvR This tweet was posted on October 24, 2019.
NOW PLAYING: “Sonámbulo (The Sleepwalker)”. Inspired by the poem “Romance Sonámbulo” by Federico García Lorca, Bulgarian-born filmmaker Theodore Ushev evokes the universe of surrealist artist Joan Miró. At the Video Arts Gallery, pre-security, in the I.T. https://t.co/hNZ49HAjmp https://t.co/bSG6dlLgbp This tweet was posted on December 05, 2017.
Nature served as a driving force in Art Nouveau, inspiring artists to create realistic or fanciful designs. This tweet was posted on March 01, 2016.
New exhibit alert! 'Barbara Morgan: Dance' features photos from the 1930s-40s by the acclaimed artist: http://t.co/kC8DNid3rO This tweet was posted on February 13, 2014.
New exhibit alert! Studio Glass examines four pioneering artists with Bay Area ties: http://t.co/sGraMFCSTB T2, post-TSA. #StudioGlass This tweet was posted on October 24, 2014.
New exhibition alert! Zimbabwe boasts an abundance of stone deposits throughout the country and a unique artistic tradition of stone carving. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe #Sculpture #Harare This tweet was posted on February 22, 2022.
Oakland-based artist John Lewis received a grant from the NEA in 1980 to build an experimental… https://t.co/D8gTVPT8MN This tweet was posted on April 07, 2015.