What’s Inside
The winter/spring 2015 issue of Women in the Arts features:
- A major exhibition, Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, highlighting the social and sacred functions of depictions of the Virgin Mary
- Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thons that spur new content on women artists and encourage women to edit Wikipedia
- Etchings by Elisabetta Sirani
- News about women in the arts including recent awards, exhibitions, and publications
Broad Strokes Blog
Artist Spotlight: Elisabetta Sirani
Learn more about Italian artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), whose work Virgin and Child (1663) is featured in the NMWA collection.
![A young, light-skinned, brunette woman gazes down lovingly at the plump baby she holds on her lap. She wears a loose, tan turban, vivid blue cloak, and red dress with white sleeves. The light-skinned child returns her gaze, leaning back to crown the woman with a circlet of roses.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1986.289-GAP-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)