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5 Questions with Polly Morgan
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Caution: Beware the Boundaries of Beasties
Patricia Piccinini’s The Stags is currently on view in NMWA’s summer exhibition Super Natural. In sleek and shimmering fiberglass, the two large sculptural pieces of The Stags combine characteristics...
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5 Questions with Françoise Pétrovitch
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Spinning Mud into Gold: Daisy Makeig-Jones
Daisy Makeig-Jones, whose work is on view at NMWA through August 16 in Casting a Spell, created Fairyland Lusterware for the Wedgwood pottery company in the early 20th century. These ceramics feature...
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5 Questions with Lara Shipley
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Questions with Mary Tsiongas
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Fast Facts: Patricia Piccinini
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Patricia Piccinini, whose work is currently on view in Super Natural. Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965) Patricia Piccinini, The Stags, 2008; Fiberglass,...
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Spotlight: Jiha Moon
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Fast Facts: Sharon Core
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Sharon Core, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in the collection galleries and in Super Natural. Sharon Core (b. 1965) Sharon Core, Single Rose,...
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Spotlight: Rachel Sussman
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Merian’s Daughters: Monika E. de Vries Gohlke, Amy Lamb, and Janaina Tschäpe
Join NMWA on September 3, when contemporary artists engage in conversation about their “artistic foremother” Maria Sibylla Merian. During Merian’s Daughters, Super Natural artists Amy Lamb, Janaina...
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Flights and Frights of Fancy
With over one thousand unique works, NMWA has one of the nation’s most extensive collections of artists’ books. Selections are always on display in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center,...
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Viewfinder: Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley (1921–1998) was a leading freelance photographer during the golden age of photojournalism. Bubley was renowned for her photographs featuring the United States and its people in the 1940s,...
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Now Open: Women Shape Design in “Pathmakers”
NMWA’s latest exhibition, Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today, is now open! Museum staff have been busy transforming the 2nd-floor galleries to display more than 80...
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Purposeful Pathmakers
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art,...
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Far-Out Fun: “Pathmakers” Member Preview Day
On Thursday, October 29, NMWA members gained advance access to the new exhibition Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today. In the post-war period, women artists were often...
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Political Pathmakers
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art,...
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Mod Women (and Men): NMWA’s Late Night Costume Party
The National Museum of Women in the Arts experienced a blast from the past on October 30 for NMWA Late Nights: Mod Women (and Men). Costumes, dancing, cocktails, and tours accompanied the after-hours...
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Polished Pathmakers
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art,...
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Tied in Knots: Eva Hesse
Perhaps in reaction to Minimalism, Eva Hesse once remarked, “What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don’t know.”...
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