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Faith Ringgold Captures the “Long Road” Ahead for Women
The bleak walls of the Rikers Island Women’s prison may not be the most traditional venue to display art, but Faith Ringgold embraced the location and presented a mural to inspire the female inmates....
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The Audrey Niffenegger Book Club
Though Audrey Niffenegger may be best known for her 2003 novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, the “Adventures in Bookland” gallery in NMWA’s current exhibition of her work showcases her sensational talent...
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Audrey Niffenegger’s Self-Portraits: Fiction or Autobiography?
“The self-portrait is like writing in the first person…There are a variety of ways to use it,” Audrey Niffenegger has said. Within NMWA’s Niffenegger exhibition, Awake in the Dream World, the States of...
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Register for the 2013 Feminist Art History Conference & Attend a talk at NMWA
Art critic and writer Lucy Lippard said in 1980 that a “developed feminist consciousness brings with it an altered concept of reality that is crucial to the art being made and to the lives lived with...
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Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger’s Hybrid Creatures: Part 1 of 2
The visual novels of Audrey Niffenegger (b. 1963) are replete with curiously concocted creatures that serve as the primary narrative tools for advancing her bizarre, dreamlike tales. Raven Girl, 2012;...
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Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger’s Hybrid Creatures: Part 2 of 2
(Click here for Part 1 of 2!) On view at NMWA through November 10, in Awake in the Dream World, Audrey Niffenegger’s work includes an array of fantastical, surreal, and dreamlike creatures. One of...
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Dominating with Depth: Faith Ringgold
As an artist, Faith Ringgold has always worked to tell her story. Faith Ringgold at NMWA with (right) American People Series #1: Between Friends, 1963; Collection Friends of the Neuberger Museum of...
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Ellen Day Hale: Traveling Adventurously
In the early 19th century, the education of young upper-class males was capped by a “grand tour,” a traditional trip around Europe that gave them an opportunity to see the world and experience art and...
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Printer, Painter, Wanderer
American artist Ellen Day Hale is best known for her skill as a portrait painter, but a body of prints currently on view at NMWA illuminates her printmaking, often based on themes and scenes she...
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Anita Steckel: Equal Exposure
In the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Steckel fought for the public acceptance of explicitly sexual art made by women, as part of the broader feminist art movement that was pushing for a revolution in the...
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Judy Chicago: Boldly Going Where No Woman Has Gone Before
Judy Chicago (née Judy Cohen) was born on July 20, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, into a household that supported her creative and intellectual interests. In her autobiography, Through the Flower, Chicago...
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The Common Thread: Quilt Grids
In Quilts as Women’s Art: A Quilt Poetics, quilter and activist Radka Donnell discusses an organizational feature of the quilt—its “grid”—which she defines as the element that is “not locking but only...
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Anita Steckel: Fighting Censorship and Double Standards
According to materials from the archive of artist Anita Steckel, before she revealed her solo exhibition The Sexual Politics of Feminist Art at Rockville Community College in 1973, a female faculty...
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Political Patchwork
In the late 1980s, quilt-lovers and feminists Jane Benson and Nancy Olsen approached Euphrat Gallery director Jan Rindfleisch with an idea for an exhibition on political quilts. After two years of...
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The Nuances of Collaboration
Quilting has long been viewed nostalgically as a collaborative activity among women, but over time these pieces have also been created by groups or individuals with complex or dubious motivations....
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Demystifying Amish Quilts
Although their roots have been attributed to different cultures, Amish quilts are regarded by many as “quintessentially American.” In Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon, Janneken Smucker...
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Lending Color to Quilts
In Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts, Barbara Brackman discusses the ways in which certain characteristics of a quilt can disclose important information on its...
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Controversial Representations of Sexuality in Feminist Art
Judy Chicago’s installation The Dinner Party premiered in San Francisco on March 1979. Soon after, it received backlash from the public because the recurring “butterfly” motif in Chicago’s dinner...
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The Monument Quilt
On Saturday, March 1, one hundred red quilts containing survivors’ stories of rape and abuse were laid out in the lawn of the Capitol Building. This installation—called the Monument Quilt, aims to...
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One is Silver and the Other’s Gold: Meret Oppenheim’s Friendships at NMWA
Now on view at NMWA, a selection of Meret Oppenheim’s art, correspondence, and archival materials provide insight into this prolific artist. Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships documents friendship as...
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