Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922–2021), founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, dedicated herself to addressing the underrepresentation of women artists in museums and galleries worldwide. Explore her life and legacy in this memorial exhibition.

This exhibition presents approximately 30 images photographer Mary Ellen Mark made throughout her career depicting girls and young women. The images are drawn from an exceptional recent donation of more than 160 photographs by the artist, given by members of the Photography Buyers Syndicate.

Textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark (b. 1967) is renowned for her mixed-media works that address race and visibility, explore Blackness, and redress history. This exhibition—the first survey of Clark’s 25-year career—includes the artist’s well-known sculptures made from black pocket combs, human hair, and thread as well as works created from flags, currency, beads, cotton plants, pencils, books, a typewriter, and a hair salon chair. 

This exhibition features books that incorporate and expand upon simple accordion folds to add complexity and movement. Part of “The Book as Art,” a series of online exhibitions that introduces the boundless creativity artists use to transform and reinvent books as we know them.

This exhibition features unbound books, or books without traditional bindings. Part of “The Book as Art,” a series of online exhibitions that introduces the boundless creativity artists use to transform and reinvent books as we know them.

This exhibition features altered books, art objects created with existing printed books. Part of “The Book as Art,” a series of online exhibitions that introduces the boundless creativity artists use to transform and reinvent books as we know them.

This exhibition features books that transform into recognizable objects that tell stories or reveal information. Part of “The Book as Art,” a series of online exhibitions that introduces the boundless creativity artists use to transform and reinvent books as we know them. 

This exhibition features carefully engineered movable books that transform into three-dimensional marvels. Part of “The Book as Art,” a series of online exhibitions that introduces the boundless creativity artists use to transform and reinvent books as we know them.

This exhibition features the codex, the most common book format made of pages bound to a spine. 

Explore the online version of the most extensive US exhibition of Graciela Iturbide's work in more than two decades, revealing the photographer's own journey to understand her homeland and the world. Exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Explore an online version of Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age, an exhibition examining the lives and works of several highly successful artists in the Netherlands during the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Explore a selection of key artworks from the museum’s collection with a focus on fashion, looking at how representations of dress and costume through the ages express ideas about both the subject and the artist.

Intrigued by the remains of ancient pottery as well as plastic bottles discarded by migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border, Jami Porter Lara’s ceramic art blurs the line between what we see as natural and manufactured, art and rubbish.

Organic Matters: Women to Watch 2015 is the fourth installment in the Women to Watch exhibition series. Learn more about the participating artists nominated by the museum's outreach committees, and their investigations of the natural world.

A complement to the exhibition Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, this online exhibition looks at works of Mary from around the world through detailed images and short videos.

The heartfelt letters showcased in this online exhibition are from the last few years before Matilde Calderón de Kahlo’s death.The letters highlight the personal affection between Frida Kahlo and her mother and showcase Kahlo as the person, not the icon.