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"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #StoryofArhoolie #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 21, 2019.
"Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LZ46ULrtmv #womenshistorymonth This tweet was posted on March 27, 2019.
"High Heels for Going to Heaven" by Yayoi Kusama, is on display, post-security, in Terminal 1. https://t.co/GHvydbyyV9 #YayoiKusama #Kusama #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 22, 2019.
#Arhoolie Records’ subsidiary label Blues Classics was the first to reintroduce the work of #MemphisMinnie (1897–1973) to a new (and largely white) audience. #StoryofArhoolie #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 12, 2019.
#ElizabethCotten won a Grammy in 1985 at the age of 90 for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for her Arhoolie LP, which she recorded in her late 80s. Her finger-picking guitar style has been emulated by numerous folk-guitar players. #StoryofArhoolie #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 21, 2019.
#TWA hostesses in training and a teacher are shown here applying makeup in 1942. #WomenInAviation #WomensHistoryMonth #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 15, 2017.
#WomensHistoryMonth isn't over yet! Continue celebrating with short films by women from around the world who work across genres to inspire and enlighten. Our screening room is still closed, but we’re continuing online programming with four special films. #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on March 29, 2021.
#YayoiKusama has used shoes as a recurring motif throughout her practice, and their presence here recalls her long-standing interest in fashion. https://t.co/GHvydbyyV9 #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 22, 2019.
@SFAC "Forever in the Sky" by #SanazMazinani, is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/vwTcO4pby8 #publicart #WomensHistoryMonth @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 05, 2019.
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.
A highly influential blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Memphis Minnie was born in Louisiana. Minnie enjoyed a successful career performing and recording for various blues labels beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1950s. #StoryofArhoolie #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 12, 2019.
After taking her first flying lessons in 1932, three years later, Jackie Cochran became the first woman to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race and she won the prestigious Bendix Trophy in 1938. #avgeek #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 04, 2019.
Betty Trippe, the wife of Pan American founder Juan Trippe, was integral to the success of Pan American World Airways. Betty accompanied Juan on many trips around the world as Pan American established new routes and forged new connections. #womenshistorymonth #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 28, 2019.
Bonnie Tiburzi became the first woman to fly for a major commercial carrier when she was hired by American Airlines in 1973. She began at American as part of its Boeing 727 Astrojet flight crew, and in 1988 was promoted to captain. #WomeninAviation #avgeek #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 23, 2022.
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.
Brought together, Soren’s images serve as a poignant meditation on the role of digital devices in society and offer a reminder of the traces, both physical and digital, that we leave behind when using them. #TabithaSoren #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 21, 2022.
Chris Strachwitz explains on the liner notes to “When Women Sang the Blues” that #MamieSmith made the first ever vocal #blues recording “Crazy Blues” in 1920. #womenshistorymonth @ArhoolieFdn @ArhoolieRecords @Folkways #BecauseOfHerStory https://t.co/7B1BFUwIJc This tweet was posted on March 27, 2019.
Dorothy Hope Parkinson Kewin (1922-1976) was the first Pan American World Airways stewardess officially assigned to Pacific route service, and she worked her way up to become the Flight Service Supervisor of Pan Am's Pacific-Alaska Division. #WomensHistoryMonth #AvGeek #PanAm This tweet was posted on March 13, 2019.
For this installation, she also draws from San Francisco’s surroundings––specifically the frequently changing sky, due to wind and fog. #DanaHemengway #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth @SFAC This tweet was posted on March 22, 2023.
Gay Outlaw spoke with us during the installation of her artwork "Intersection," "Shell," and "Bird Plane House." Watch how these massive, multi-ton sculptures were placed and learn about the artist's process. https://t.co/grJqAUnZwA #WomensHistoryMonth #PublicArt This tweet was posted on March 02, 2021.
Happy 90th birthday #YayoiKusama!!! Kusama is considered one of the most important Japanese artists of her generation, and in the 1960s, was dubbed the "polka dot princess" due to her signature motif. https://t.co/GHvydbQ9MH #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 22, 2019.
Ida Staggers was first hired by TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air) as a hostess in 1936 and became the Eastern Division Chief Hostess by the 1940s. Read more about her tenure at TWA on our Facebook: https://t.co/YVhJT2wCmg #womenshistorymonth #womeninaviation This tweet was posted on March 14, 2018.
In 1978, Gail Gorski became the first female pilot to be hired by United Airlines. Gorski, who started flying at the age of 16, was a Boeing 747 and DC-10 pilot based in the Bay Area and an original charter member of @ISA21_Pilots. #52Objects #WomensHistoryMonth #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 06, 2023.
In her series, “Surface Tension”, Tabitha Soren examines our complex relationship with technology and draws focus on our increasingly tactile connection to visual information. #TabithaSoren #Photography #Techonology #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists @tabithasoren This tweet was posted on March 21, 2022.
Indonesian writer and director Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto follows young Anjani after the death of her father as she tries to reconnect with him through his practiced art of Wayang Puppetry. #VideoArts #Srikandi #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 23, 2023.
Janet Knight owned and operated Summit Flying School at San Francisco Municipal Airport in the 1930s. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInAviation This tweet was posted on March 29, 2017.
Katherine Stinson was also the first woman to fly mail for the U.S. Postal Service. She petitioned to fly for the military during WWI I but was denied due to her gender. Instead, she joined the ambulance service for the Red Cross in Europe. #EnduranceEngines #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 28, 2023.
Learn more about Katherine Stinson in our upcoming exhibition ”Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” coming soon! https://t.co/pdEnlquXeN #InternationalWomensDay #KatherineStinson #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 08, 2022.
Learn more about Marguerite Wildenhain in “A Potter’s Life: Marguerite Wildenhain at #PondFarm” https://t.co/qaeLZ3WKsX #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 09, 2016.
Linda Geary is an abstract painter whose work is inspired by material processes of cutting, revision and repair; a collage approach that references actions of sewing and construction, akin to making a quilt. #LindaGeary #PublicArt #WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 15, 2023.
Marguerite Wildenhain was the first woman to achieve master potter status in Germany. #PondFarm #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 09, 2016.
North Carolina native #ElizabethCotten (1895–1987) first picked up her brother’s banjo at the age of eight. Left-handed, she taught herself to play the right-handed guitar upside down. #StoryofArhoolie #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/u2NcUZLiPs This tweet was posted on March 21, 2019.
Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas in 1903. Olive Ann and her husband Walter established Beechcraft in 1932. After he died in 1950, she became the company’s president, and the first woman to head a major aircraft corporation. #avgeek #Beechcraft #womenshistorymonth This tweet was posted on March 30, 2022.
RT @FAANews: Join us for #WomensHistoryMonth as we celebrate the women who broke barriers to become #AviationPioneers. https://t.co/paS3a5O… This tweet was posted on March 01, 2018.
RT @FAANews: Today we honor aviator Amelia Earhart who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. #WomensHistoryMonth https… This tweet was posted on March 08, 2017.
RT @HxDilettante: For National Rosie the Riveter Day: Pittsburgh women gettin' it done during WWII! #rosietheriveter #WomensHistoryMonth ht… This tweet was posted on March 21, 2017.