WHAT:
Steven Scott Collects:
Donations and Promised Gifts to the Permanent Collection

In 1992, at age 30, Steven Scott designated his growing personal collection for donation to the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It also was the first time a private collector other than the museum’s founders, the Holladays, had pledged to the museum. Since then, NMWA has shown Scott’s donations and promised gifts, which now number over 100 works, within the context of the permanent collection.

Baltimore art historian and art dealer Steven Scott became interested in works by women as a graduate student in art history at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1987, after writing his thesis in art, Scott began collecting works by Hollis Sigler and other women in hopes of building a museum quality collection that he could eventually give to NMWA. After graduating from Maryland in May 1988, Scott opened a gallery bearing his name in Baltimore. It is now located in Owings Mills, Maryland.

WHEN:
June 10 – September 25, 2005

COST:
$8 for adults, $6 for students and visitors 60 and over, free for NMWA members and children under 18. Free Community Days are the first Wednesday and Sunday of each month and Fridays from June 10 – July 15, 2005.

WHERE:
2nd Floor Galleries
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
www.nmwa.org or 202.783.5000
Two blocks north of Metro Center

Media contact only: Rachel Applegate
202.783.7373
media@nmwa.org