Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years
A photography exhibit at Miami International Airport (MIA) celebrates one hundred years of flight in Miami, from the first flight in 1911 to the airport’s current status as the second busiest passenger airport in the United States.
The exhibit is in the Central Terminal, Concourse E, just past the security checkpoint.
All photos courtesy History Miami
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has put out the first of a three-part video series titled Clipper Glory: The Dawn of Ocean Air Transport.
Museum curator John Hill has assembled oral histories and period still photographs to celebrate the 1st Cross-Ocean scheduled passenger flight, which took place in April, 1937.
Be sure to take a look…
A Green Gardens exhibit is on view at O’Hare and Midway International Airports through Monday, April 9 that “re-purposes” some of the floral displays that were on view at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show held at Chicago’s Navy Pier in March.
A series of window façade replicas with window box floral displays from Chicagoland nonprofits, are featured at both airports and, at O’Hare, there’s a replica of the White House Kitchen Garden, with raised beds to show off the ideas of growing fresh, organic, local food that are part of the First Lady Michelle Obama’s childhood anti-obesity initiative.
Vertical hydroponic gardens, which demonstrate how vertical gardens can provide compact and efficient growing space, reduce noise and improve indoor air quality, are on display at both airports.
At Midway, the Green Gardens exhibit is located on the upper level ticketing area. At O’Hare, the exhibit is in Terminal 2, post-security, next to the Kids on the Fly children’s play area, and in Terminal 3, between Concourses H/K and L, post-security.
Photos courtesy: Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA)/kp
Former skateboard champion Victor Perez now has an art gallery in Philadelphia where he creates and sells Sk8Lamps - lamps made from broken and damaged skateboards.
Part of the ‘upcycling” trends, “the lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical pieces are removed from devices no longer deemed aesthetically pleasing and given extended life.”
Sound intriguing? A selection of Sk8Lamps will be on view at the Philadelphia International Airport, between Terminals A-East and B, through September 2012
While it would be great if you could get a skirt or a pair of pants hemmed while you were stuck at the airport, that sort of service is quite rare.
But San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is offering perhaps the next best thing: an exhibition about the history of sewing machines.
(Singer sewing machine c. 1895–99. From the Collection of the Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto, CA)
Threading the Needle: Sewing in the Machine Age traces the development of the domestic sewing machine from the 1850s to the 1970s and celebrates more than one hundred years of sewing.
According to the SFO Museum:
When the sewing machine was first introduced to American homes in the 1850s, it was heralded as a laborsaving device that would transform the domestic lives of women everywhere. Sewing clothing and household linens, once a time consuming, never ending task, no longer had to be painstakingly completed by hand. The popular and influential Godey’s Lady’s Book soon coined the sewing machine “the queen of inventions” and declared that every family in the United States should own one.
In the exhibit, pattern illustrations highlight ladies homemade fashions throughout the decades and a variety of notions from sewing boxes and sewing birds are also on display.
(Sewing accessory stands, c. 1930. From the collection of Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley, CA).
Look for the exhibit in SFO Terminal 3, F2 North Connect Gallery, March 2012–August 2012
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