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Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature...
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Images that Tell a Story: The First Woman Graphic Novelist
The Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) at NMWA currently features an exhibition of work showcasing a female voice in a field that many associate with men. Five novels created by Helena...
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“The Past is Palpably Present” on New York Avenue
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s work is now on view in NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project! At a celebration on September 30, curator and scholar Mary Jane Jacob, a renowned authority on the artist, gave...
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Meet Mary through MapHook
NMWA visitors don’t have to wait to for glimpses of the museum’s next big exhibition! Though Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea is still a few weeks away, NMWA has begun unveiling an online preview of...
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Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Marbles” by Ellen Forney
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature...
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Popping Up with Colette Fu
Award-winning pop-up book artist Colette Fu was invited to speak at the 25th Anniversary Library Fellows Meeting (now renamed the Book Arts Fellows). Based in Philadelphia, Fu creates books that, when...
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Looking Forward: Women to Watch 2015—Organic Matters
NMWA is thrilled to host the fourth Women to Watch exhibition, Organic Matters, from June 5 to September 13, 2015. Developed in collaboration with the museum’s national and international outreach...
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There’s something about Mary . . .
Tomorrow, December 5, the National Museum of Women in the Arts opens Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. This new exhibition explores the concept of womanhood represented by the Virgin Mary—who has...
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Picturing (and Printing and Publishing) Mary
The catalogue for Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea explores depictions of the Virgin Mary in art from a unique combination of religious, cross-cultural, and contemporary art-historical perspectives....
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5 Fast Facts: Artemisia Gentileschi
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593–Naples? 1656), whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary. 1. Wunderkind Gentileschi...
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Beyond Iconography: Food in The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Orsola Maddalena Caccia’s lavishly detailed painting The Birth of St. John the Baptist (1635), currently on view in Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, features still-life arrangements nestled into...
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Orsola Maddalena Caccia: “Picturing Mary” as a Renaissance Nun
Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea focuses on themes of femininity, motherhood, and ideal women expressed through the image of the Virgin Mary. The lives of women artists whose work is on view,...
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Go Global with Mary
Did you know that NMWA launched its first-ever online exhibition, A Global Icon: Mary in Context, in conjunction with Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea? NMWA’s digital engagement and curatorial teams...
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5 Fast Facts: Sofonisba Anguissola
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532–1625), whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary. 1. All in the Family Anguissola’s father,...
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Recent library acquisitions: Bookplates by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová
Museum visitors may remember the recent exhibition in NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center featuring wordless novels by the first woman graphic novelist, Czech artist Helena...
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Blood and Milk, Science and Culture: The Virgin as a Nursing Mother
The figure of the Virgin Mary has been used in art as an ideal woman, poetic beauty, and perfect mother. Young girls in the Italian renaissance were told to look up to the examples of the saints,...
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Mary and the Colors of Motherhood
Paintings of Mary cradling her newborn son Jesus line the walls of Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. This iconic “Madonna and Child” pose, the most prevalent visual representation of the two, was...
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Making the Video: A Behind-the-Lens Look at “A Global Icon: Mary in Context”
These days, everything seems to be going digital. Artwork is no exception to this change, and museums are taking notice. With its first online exhibition, NMWA has joined other museums in embracing...
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The Female Form through Female Eyes
Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the...
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Allusions in Picturing Mary
The art of Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea overflows with religious symbolism and iconography. Images of Mary hold a prominent place in Christian iconography and operate on two distinct levels: the...
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