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The National Museum of Women in the Arts Communications
and Marketing Department provides members of the media with press
releases about exhibitions, programs, and other events. Click the
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| October 12, 2009 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Launches Web 2.0 Initiative |
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WASHINGTON—NMWA recently embraced Web 2.0 launching its own blog and joining popular social networking sites.
“We launched our blog Broad Strokes on July 6, Frida Kahlo’s birthday, and are delighted by the enthusiastic response. We’ve heard from women and men around the globe who love our museum and want to feel connected to us weekly, even daily. This is possible for the first time through the blog as well as our presence on Facebook and Twitter,” says NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling.
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| October 8, 2009 |
"Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Painting" at NMWA
October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—National Museum of Women in the Arts presents 26 masterworks by some of Australia’s best-known painters, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Abie Loy Kemarre, Mitjili Napurrla, and Eubena Nampitjin in Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Painting, on view October 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010 |
| October 8, 2009 |
Enigmatic Images Unveiled in Telling Secrets:
Codes, Captions, and Conundrums in Contemporary Art at NMWA,
October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—With contemporary art, what you see is rarely all you get. Artists today visually and thematically layer abstraction, text, symbols, cultural references, and personal experiences to create meaning and depth in their work. Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions and Conundrums in Contemporary Art features 39 paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and prints from NMWA’s collection selected to inspire viewers to make multiple interpretations and inscribe their own ideas and experiences onto each work. |
| October 8, 2009 |
Classic Beauty Blooms on Canvas in Elements of Nature: Equines and Still Lifes by Clarice Smith at NMWA, October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—This fall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clarice Smith’s 30 years of creating a significant body of accomplished, admired work go on display as Elements of Nature: Equines and Still Lifes by Clarice Smith, from October 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010. |
| October 8, 2009 |
Hard Copy: Book as Sculpture Gives Body to the Written Word
On view at NMWA August 7, 2009 through January 17, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON–The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Hard Copy: Book as Sculpture, an exhibition of 15 artist books that transcend the boundaries of ordinary books and sculpture alike. On view through January 17, 2010, each artwork takes the subject of the book, either literally or figuratively, and transforms it into a three-dimensional piece of art. |
| March 20, 2009 |
“Fashion Forward: Photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe” At National Museum of Women in the Arts, March 20 – August 30, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—From 1936 to 1958, American photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) brought her formal precision, irreverent sense of humor, and volatile personality to the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar. As a staff photographer, she produced 86 covers and thousands of color and black-and-white photographs, including those on view in a special exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The exhibition, “Fashion Forward: Photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe,” features 29 black-and-white photographs that range from humorous juxtapositions of Dahl-Wolfe’s models with famous paintings and sculptures, to glamorous shots of fashions by design luminaries Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, and Claire McCardell. |
| March 16, 2009 |
NMWA and Washington Shakespeare Company Present Sort-of-Jane Austen Reading Series: Women Dramatists and Writers of the Renaissance
April 6 - May 25, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON— During Shakespeare’s time, women were not permitted to act or produce works for the public stage. As a result, dramatic works authored by women during the Renaissance were published under a man’s name or never performed during the writers’ lifetimes. Through the joint efforts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Washington Shakespeare Company, the writings of these unsung women playwrights and dramatists are now being rediscovered and recognized for their historical and theatrical contributions to society. |
| March 13, 2009 |
"Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1900-1945" At NMWA
March 20 through July 5, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—Courage, perseverance, diligence, business sense and networking abilities—these were among the necessary qualifications for a woman in turn of the 20th century Hungary who pursued a career in photography. Featuring 80 works, many of which have never been on public view in the United States, Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1900–1945, explores the role women played in the development of photography as an art form and as a documentary medium during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval. |
| March 13, 2009 |
NMWA Celebrates the work of American Fashion Designer Mary McFadden in Mary McFadden: Goddesses, March 20 through August 30, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—For the first time in its 22 year history, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) salutes haute couture by presenting Mary McFadden: Goddesses, an exhibition of gowns, clothing ensembles and jewelry by internationally-renowned American fashion designer Mary McFadden. On view from March 20 through August 30, 2009, the exhibition also features historic textiles and jewelry drawn from McFadden’s own collection assembled during her extensive world travels. Mary McFadden: Goddesses was organized by The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia and curated by Lorie Mertes, Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator. |
| March 6, 2009 |
“Miracle of Movement: Isabel Bishop in Union Square, New York” At National Museum of Women in the Arts, March 6, 2009–May 17, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—New York artist Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) devoted her career to depicting the fleeting movements of passersby she observed near her 14th Street studio in Union Square. Inspired by the realism of New York’s Ashcan school as well as by Rembrandt’s depictions of common people, Bishop rejected lofty themes in her art and portrayed her subjects in the middle of candid movements. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and displayed in the Teresa Lozano Long Gallery, “Miracle of Movement: Isabel Bishop in Union Square, New York” features 20 works from NMWA’s collection, including 17 prints and paintings generously bequeathed to NMWA in 2004 by Catherine Gamble Curran. Ranging in date from 1927 to 1984, they are studies of the mobility of the human form and daily life in Manhattan. |
| March 3, 2009 |
NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling Receives Women's Caucus for Art 2009 President's Award |
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WASHINGTON—Susan Fisher Sterling, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been selected to receive the Women’s Caucus for Art 2009 President’s Award. The award was established in 1983 to recognize exemplary women in mid-career and highlight their outstanding contributions to the arts community. |
| February 20, 2009 |
Breaking Through: Women Leading Museums
A Panel Discussion Celebrating Women’s History Month 2009 |
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In celebration of Women’s History month, four women who direct museums in Washington, D.C. will candidly explore the role of women in our nation’s cultural life in a panel discussion at the National Museum of Women in the Arts at 6:30 p.m. on March 26, 2009. The program is co-sponsored by ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, dedicated to recognizing the contributions of women artists. |
| December 8, 2008 |
Philanthropists James and Suzanne Mellor to Fund Scholarly Publication for the National Museum of Women in the Arts
$50,000 Prize awarded to winning author |
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WASHINGTON—The National Museum of Women in the Arts announces the inaugural Suzanne and James Mellor Prize, an award of $50,000 to fund original research and authorship of a scholarly volume on a woman artist or subject related to the mission of the museum. This year’s Award Committee will consider book proposals on monographs concerning artists active before 1850.
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| November 24, 2008 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Receives
Charity Navigator 4-Star Rating |
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WASHINGTON—Charity Navigator, America’s foremost independent charity evaluator, recently awarded the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) its prestigious four star rating, the highest rating available. This award recognizes NMWA’s excellence in the effective and efficient management of its finances and operations. |
| October 24, 2008 |
ACTOR, SINGER LYNDA CARTER TO RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM NMWA |
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Honor to be Presented at November 7 Fall Benefit |
| October 10, 2008 |
POWER OF ROLE PLAY EXAMINED IN NMWA'S ORIGINAL EXHIBITION
ROLE MODELS: FEMININE IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PHOTOTGRAPHY ON VIEW OCTOBER 17, 2008–JANUARY 25, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography explores how role playing has been central to the art, meaning and social function of contemporary photography. On view October 17, 2008, through January 25, 2009, the exhibition breaks new ground by bringing two generations together to show how this practice has evolved. Role Models features 70 works by 18 artists whose portraiture, self-portraiture, and narrative photographs have influenced our understanding of gender and identity. |
| July 18, 2008 |
NMWA ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF A MIXED MEDIA WORK
BY ILONA KESERÜ |
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Washington, D.C. -- The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently received the donation of Black Line (1968) from Hungarian artist Ilona Keserü. Black Line expresses (in the artist’s words) “the feeling of womanhood and joie de vivre” and is filled with “all the possibilities of a woman in her 30s”—the age of Keserü at the time she created it. The work is among the first by Keserü in which she cut pieces of canvas, molded them with glue, and stitched them to the canvas to create three-dimensional shapes. |
| May 1, 2008 |
“Something Pertaining to God”:
The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins at NMWA |
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WASHINGTON—The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents the Washington showing of “Something Pertaining to God”: The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins, June 27–September 21, 2008, an exhibition showcasing the work of the widely-acclaimed African-American quilt-maker Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006). |
| September 20, 2007 |
NMWA Presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
September 21-December 16, 2007
Landmark Exhibition Surveys Foundations and Legacy of Feminist Art From 1965 to 1980 |
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Washington, D.C. – The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will present the first East Coast showing of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, a landmark survey of the remarkable body of work that emerged from the relationship between art and feminism in and around the 1970s. WACK! will be on view from September 21 through December 16, 2007.
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| November 29, 2006 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Founder to Receive Legion of Honor from French Government
French Ambassador to Present Wilhelmina Cole Holladay with France’s Highest Award November 30 |
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder and chair of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will receive the Legion of Honor, the French government’s highest award, Thursday, November 30. |
| November 9, 2006 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Founder Receives National Medal of Arts: President Presents Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Honor for Her Service to the Arts |
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder and chair of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) today received the National Medal of Honor from President Bush in an Oval Office ceremony. |
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