Library Exhibitions
Within the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, library special exhibitions illustrate and interpret the history of women in the arts through the display of archival documents and rare books.
Exhibitions showcase artist correspondence, sketchings, ephemera, photographs, posters, rare books, museum archival material, and artists’ books.
Current Exhibitions
MAY 10 2013–NOV 1 2013
Making Her Mark: Publishers' Bindings by Women
In the nineteenth century, book publishers developed new bookbinding methods to respond to the desires of an increasingly educated general public. One of these shifts was using cloth to bind books instead of the more expensive leather and the less resilient paper bindings. This provided an avenue for women artists to make their mark on bookbinding design and soon they became some of the most successful designers.
ONGOING
Artists’ Books from the Permanent Collection
This ongoing exhibition highlights the museum’s diverse collection of more than 1,000 artists’ books in a variety of formats—such as sculptural, tunnel, altered, movable, miniature, and accordian. Various techniques on display include etchings, drawings, digital photography, offset printing, and mixed media.
The latest winner of the Library Fellows Award Program, Goldilocks, is also featured.
Past Exhibitions
NOV 01 2012–APR 30 2013
A Museum of Their Own: 25 Years of NMWA History
A Museum of Their Own: 25 Years of NMWA History illustrates the history of the museum through documents, printed matter, and photographs selected from the institutional archives.
MAY 01–JUL 31 2012
Mamacita Linda: Letters between Frida Kahlo and her Mother
A selection of intimate letters sent between Frida Kahlo and her mother, Matilde Calderón de Kahlo, in the years just before her mother’s death.