In a world of constant distraction, undergraduate photography students at California College of the Arts turn to slowness as an antidote, expressed through labor-intensive practices and restrained visual language.
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By superimposing fantastical clouds on top of the photographic image of the cosmos, Ebtekar generates a dialogue between science and art, the finite and the infinite, the real and the imagined.
See “Zenith (VII)” by Ala Ebtekar on display, pre-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://bit.ly/4i8WPCX
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"Ocean Voices II” is an epic wood sculpture. Ursula von Rydingsvard has created sculptures out of cedar wood for the past 35 years. Her longstanding use of wood is linked to memories of the makeshift structures that her Ukrainian-Polish family inhabited while moving from one displaced-persons camp to the next across postwar Germany.
Well known for dressing Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner, William Travilla (1920–1990) created this synthetic blend, summer seasonal ensemble for United in a new color named Blue Frost. The lightly fitted jacket has a distinct chelsea collar and a three-quarter-length sleeve with a detachable dropped cuff.
Filmmaker Beau Gaughran captures the vast, rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains and high desert through the powerful connections made by ranching women with their dogs, horses, and cattle.
Janet Alvarado, the daughter of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado (1914–76), discovered a tremendous archive of nearly 3,000 negatives and photographs in her parents’ garage after her father’s death in 1976. Astonished that her father had never discussed his photography with her, she realized the important treasure she had uncovered. In 1998, Janet established The Alvarado Project to ensure the preservation of her father’s unique cultural record of Filipino American life in CA.
Harvey Milk recruited political activist Anne Kronenberg (b. 1954) to run his campaign for supervisor in 1977. After their historic victory, Kronenberg served as a legislative aide to Milk during his all-too-brief tenure, playing a critical role in garnering support for the passage of San Francisco’s Gay Rights Ordinance. Continuing with a lifelong career in public service, in December 2010, Kronenberg became Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.
Under senior designer Eva Rosencrans (1901–1994), the internationally known New York-based label founded in 1929 by Ben Reig took United’s uniform in a new direction as the jet age progressed. This winter suit, worn from 1963 to 1968, is made in soft bouclé worsted wool created in a new color named Blue Vision. Distinctly more feminine than previous fitted-suit uniforms, the modified box-shape jacket with a bracelet length sleeve and a soft rolled collar is matched with an A-line skirt.
Italian director Andrea Pecora visits Sardinia’s most mountainous region to create a short documentary that celebrates the women of Desulo and the traditional dress that connects their past and present.
See “A Desulo” by Andrea Pecora in the Video Arts Gallery, located pre-security in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall, and open daily from 8:00am to 10:00pm. Learn more about this month’s films at: https://bit.ly/Video-Arts
Nance O’Banion was trained as a weaver, but began working with handmade paper as a sculptural medium in 1970. Since then she has become one of the best-known artists working in that medium. Change and transformation are important themes for O’Banion, and "Billboard Series" seems to respond to the transitory nature of the Airport itself as the piece appears to change as the viewer moves around it.