Ma mua o ka Wāhine Mōʻaukala Wahine e hoʻomaka ana ma ka Pōʻalima, hoʻomaka ʻo United Airlines i kahi hoʻokūkū mua loa i hoʻolālā ʻia e ʻimi a hāpai i nā mea pena kiʻi wahine i hōʻike ʻole ʻia e ka manawa kūpono e pena i kahi kāwele e like me nā mea ʻē aʻe - mokulele United Airlines. ʻOiai ʻo 51% o nā mea pena kiʻi i kēia lā he wahine, ma lalo o 13% o nā kiʻi i hōʻike ʻia i nā hale hōʻikeʻike e nā mea pena kiʻi wahine e like me ka National Museum of Women in the Arts. Hāʻawi ka pena ʻana i kahi Boeing 757 i nā mea pena kiʻi me kahi kāʻei huakaʻi e lele ana ma ka awelika 1.6 miliona mau mile i ka makahiki a me 476 mau huakaʻi keʻa. 300 mau manawa ka nui o ka mokulele ma mua o ka canvas maʻamau 18 typical x 24.

"Ma ke ʻano he hui, ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei mākou i ke koʻikoʻi o ke kaulike o nā wahine i ka mea i hana mua ʻia ma ke ʻano he kahua kane," wahi a Jill Kaplan, ka pelekikena o United no New York a me New Jersey. "I ko mākou lohe ʻana i nā ʻikepili e pili ana i ka haʻahaʻa ʻana o nā wahine i ka wā e hōʻike ana i kā lākou kiʻi, ua manaʻo mākou he aha ke ala maikaʻi e kōkua ai i ka hoʻololi ʻana i kēia moʻolelo ma mua o ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka canvas nui loa i loaʻa iā mākou - he mokulele."

Ua hana lōʻihi ʻia ʻo United i lilo i alakaʻi i ka holomua ʻana i nā wahine i ka ʻoihana mokulele. I kēia lā ʻoi aku ka nui o nā wahine o nā mea hoʻokele ma mua o nā mokulele ʻē aʻe o ka honua, e like me Bebe O'Neil, ʻo United's System Chief Pilot, nāna e mālama i nā pailaka he 12,600 o ka lawe. Ua hana ka mokulele me Women in Aviation, kahi hui nonprofit e hoʻolako nei i ka launa pūnaewele, ke aʻo ʻana, ke alakaʻi ʻana, a me nā manawa kula, no nā makahiki he 25 a ʻoi me nā Kaikamahine i ka Lā Mokulele e hōʻoia i ka nui o nā pailaka wahine.

"Ma ke ʻano he hui honua me ka hoʻokomo ʻia ma kā mākou kumu, ʻimi mau mākou i nā manawa kū hoʻokahi e hoʻolauleʻa ai a hōʻikeʻike ai i nā tālena like ʻole," i ʻōlelo ai ka pelekikena o United California ʻo Janet Lamkin "Ua hauʻoli mākou i ka loaʻa ʻana o ka manawa kūpono ma o kēia hoʻokūkū kū hoʻokahi e ʻike ai i ka hana a kēia mau mea pena kiʻi wahine ʻokoʻa. Haʻaheo mākou i ka hoʻonui ʻana i ko mākou noho honua ʻana e hōʻike i kā lākou hana nui i nā miliona o ka poʻe i ʻike i kā mākou mokulele ma ka honua a me ka lani. "

I mea e komo ai, pono i kēlā me kēia mea e ʻike he wahine, e like me cisgender, transgender, aligned a wahine ʻole ʻole binary, a noho i ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, ka mea hiki ke ʻike maka iā New York / New Jersey a i ʻole Kaleponi, ʻelua mākeke nui no ka mokulele. i kā lākou ʻano ponoʻī, ʻoiai e hoʻohui ana i ka nuʻukia o ka ʻoihana a me nā manaʻo o nā kaiaulu i kēlā me kēia wahi i ka mea pena kiʻi. E koho ʻia he ʻelua mau mea lanakila, ma ke ʻano he moho no kēlā me kēia māhele, a hāʻawi ʻia i manawa e hana pū ai me ka mea pena kiʻi kaulana ʻo Shantell Martin e hoʻopau ai i kahi hoʻolālā no kā lāua mokulele mokulele. Lawe ʻo Shantell i ka hoʻokūkū i kāna mau kālena a me kāna hana, mai ka New York City Ballet i kahi hui pū me ka mea pena lanakila ʻo Pulitzer Prize Kendrick Lamar, i piha i nā kaha kiʻi a me nā moʻolelo moʻolelo, i hoʻolaʻa ʻia e ʻike pono i nā mea pena kiʻi wahine ʻē aʻe.

No ke komo ʻana, paipai ʻia nā poʻe e kipa aku i kahi pūnaewele ʻo United a waiho i kahi manaʻo hoʻolālā, nā laʻana o kā lākou papa hana me kahi wikiō pōkole e 24 Malaki 2019 , alakaʻi ʻia e kēlā me kēia pelekikena o ka ʻāina, ʻo Janet Lamkin ma Kaleponi a ʻo Jill Kaplan ma New York / New Jersey mai Malaki 25 - ʻApelila 9, 2019, a ukali ʻia e ka balota lehulehu mai ʻApelila 10 - ʻApelila 19, 2019 e hoʻoholo i nā mea pena kiʻi lanakila mai kēlā me kēia wahi. . E loaʻa i nā mea hope loa a me nā mea lanakila kā lākou hōʻikeʻike wehe ponoʻī, e hōʻike ʻia kā lākou hana noʻeau i loko o nā United Airlines terminals ma o 2019 me kā lākou mau hana i loaʻa e kūʻai ai a e hāʻawi ʻia lākou i 100,000 mile mile ka makana. E lele nā hoʻolālā hope loa i kēia hāʻule.

He manawa kūpono nā mea kūʻai aku ma Los Angeles a me New York e kipa i nā mural e Shantell Martin ma ke ʻano he ʻāpana o kēia hoʻokūkū. Hōʻike kēlā me kēia mural i nā puka aniani mokulele pilina e alakaʻi i nā wikiō me ka ʻike hou aku. E hōʻike ʻia nā mural mai kēia manawa a hiki i Malaki 18 ma 799 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA a ma 38 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY.

He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:

To enter, individuals must identify as a woman, including cisgender, transgender, woman-aligned or non-binary, and reside in the United States, who can visually represent either New York/New Jersey or California, two key markets for the airline, in their own style, while combining the company’s mission and what the communities in each region mean to the artist.
Submissions will be judged and narrowed down to three finalists by a panel of judges from each region, led by each region’s president, Janet Lamkin in California and Jill Kaplan in New York/New Jersey from March 25 – April 9, 2019, followed by a public vote from April 10 – April 19, 2019 to determine the winning artists from each region.
In advance of Women’s History Month beginning on Friday, United Airlines is launching a first-of-its-kind contest designed to find and uplift underrepresented women artists by providing a chance to paint a canvas like no other — a United Airlines aircraft.