The label created by songwriting duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, along with collaborator Thom Bell, released hits by artists such as Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, Lou Rawls, The O’Jays, and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
Chuck Gamble, the nephew of PIR co-founder Kenny Gamble (first photo), was on hand for the ribbon-cutting, as was co-founder Leon Huff (below, in the checked shirt).
Monday was National Tell a Joke Day and a few airports around the country shared some funny bits via Twitter. If we missed yours, please let us know and we’ll add it in.
We also spotted this colorful tweet from Pittsburgh International Airport, a fun Monday verse from Tampa International Airport, and a quick art tour from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport.
Join us for a tour of our recent exhibition, "Stoneware Stories: Folk Pottery of Edgefield, South Carolina", led by the exhibition’s curator, Nicole Mullen. https://t.co/AznNZ0xn0N#StonewareStories
And take a look at this great agricultural exhibit at Monterey Regional Airport (MRY) in California. The exhibit tells the story of the area’s agricultural heritage with photos, informational panels, and exhibit cases. As a nice bonus, the airport is offering free parking validation to those who want to just stop by and see the exhibit.
Be sure to take a look at the new From the Ground Exhibit next time you are passing through the terminal and don’t forget to tag @montereyairport and @montereycfb in your selfies with the star of the exhibit, “Lillia”. pic.twitter.com/EJxRLIiS1S
— Monterey Regional Airport (@montereyairport) August 14, 2021
In 2021. Dallas’ NorthPark Center will present#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit,which will feature 123 3-D printed statues of contemporary women working in the STEM professions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
In the meantime, 15 of those statues are on display through March 9, 2021, at Dallas Love Field. Included in the group are 10 statues that portray women who work in aviation or aerospace-related fields, including astrophysicists, a rocket scientist, and an aviation maintenance technician.
To create the statues each subject stands in a scanning booth that uses 89 cameras and 25 projectors to generate a 3D image. A special machine then takes up to ten hours to slowly build up the layers of acrylic gel that make the statue.
Here’s a list of the women whose statues are in the DAL pop-up exhibit.
1. Adriana Bailey – Atmospheric Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research 2. Charita Castro – Social Science Researcher, Office of the US Trade Representative 3. Xyla Foxlin – Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Nonprofit Director, Beauty and the Bolt 4. Miriam Fuchs – Telescope Systems Specialist, East Asian Observatory 5. Joyonna Gamble-George – Health Scientist, National Institutes of Health 6. Erika Hamden – Professor of Astrophysics, University of Arizona 7. Kelly Korreck – Astrophysicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8. Adele Luta – Scientist and Innovator, Oceaneering 9. Jenn Makins – STEM Educator and Inventor, Parish Episcopal School 10. Amanda Masino – Biologist, Professor and Research Director, Huston-Tillotson University 11. Tiffany Panko – Women’s Health Researcher, Rochester Institute of Technology 12. Jasmine Sadler – Dancing Rocket Scientist and STEAM Entrepreneur, The STEAM Collaborative 13. Nikki Sereika – Aviation Maintenance Technician, Southwest Airlines 14. Nicole Sharp – Aerospace Engineer and Science Communicator, Sharp Science Communication Consulting 15. Mary Beth Westmoreland – Vice President, Amazon
And here’s a short time-lapse video of the statues being installed.
Phoenix is home to the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery and right now passengers traveling through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are being treated to an exhibit featuring nine hand-crafted guitars, including both acoustic and electric style.
Exhibition highlights include Scott Walker’s hand-painted “patina” guitar (above), which has wood body that resembles oxidized metal. Also on display: an unusual 26-string harp-guitar by William Eaton and an electric mandolin by Joe Vallee, whose instruments are collected by prominent musicians like Steve Miller.
Visitors to the PHX Airport Museum exhibit will also find displays of the guitar-making process. Parts of a guitar are presented in an exploded view showing how a guitar is constructed. And the various stages of shaping the wood components of a guitar are explained.
Exploded view of an acoustic guitar, courtesy of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery
Phoenix Airport Museum’s exhibition, Shaping Sound: The Art of Guitar Making, is on view in two display cases at Terminal 4, level 2 near ticketing through May 2020.
The 30-year old Phoenix Airport Museum has more than 900 pieces in its collection. The museum presents exhibits featuring both items from the collection and from area artists in several galleries throughout the airport.
But don’t worry. The bugs are all under glass and are part of a new exhibit hosted by the SFO Museum.
The exhibit, titled The Intriguing World of Insects includes more than 1000 specimens, fine art photography and rare books. There’s also an atomical model of Musca domestica, the inscect we know better as the house fly.
Display drawer of camouflage insect specimens – courtesy SFO Museum
Why an exhibit of insects?
Besides that fact that they look really pretty and non-threatening inside the cases, insects, the exhibit notes tell us, are the most diverse macroscopic organisms on the planet.
Researchers have identified over one million species of insects – so far – and estimate that five to thirty million more insects are waiting to be discovered.
In fact, there are more species of ants than species of birds, and more species of beetles than all species of plants combined.
Display drawer of ladybug (Coccinellidae) specimens – courtesy SFO Museum
Here’s a quick insect class, to get you ready for the exhibit:
*Insects, spiders, lobsters, and their cousins are arthropods. That means they have jointed legs and an external skeleton.
*The first insects appeared around 400 million years ago and evolved wings over 300 million years ago.
*Fossils of dragonfly ancestors, called griffinflies, had wingspans of over sixty centimeters. In contrast, the tiniest insects today have wingspans of less than one millimeter.
*But not all insects have wings. Some species, like silverfish, never evolved wings, while others, like camel crickets, lost them millions of years ago.
*Insects play integral roles in ecosystems. They pollinate the flowers of many fruits and vegetables, produce wax and honey and keep pest plants and insects at bay. Insects also recycle nutrients through decomposition, and are important food sources for other species.
Class over, for now.
Display drawer of scarab beetle (Scarabaeidae) specimens- Courtesy SFO Museum
The SFO Museum’s exhibition, The Intriguing World of Insects, comes to San Fransicsco International Airport from the Essig Museum of Entomology which is has a collection of more then 5 million arthropods stored at the University of California, Berkeley.
Look for the exhibit pre-security in SFO’s International Terminal, on the Depatures Level through August 18, 2019.
Display drawer of blue and green butterflies (Rhopalocera) and colorful beetles (Coleoptera) – courtesy SFO Museum Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) sculpture – by Gar Waterman courtesy SFO
