Can’t visit the museum in person? NMWA can be accessed anywhere you have an internet connection. We invite you to explore our online resources and to follow @WomenInTheArts on social media. Join us to keep sharing, amplifying, and celebrating women artists who are changing the world.
What to Explore
Art & Artists
- Our online collection features over 200 works of art by women artists searchable by name, time period, medium, and theme.
- Visit our artist profiles to learn about important women artists from the past and present.
- View high resolution art through Google Arts & Culture, including a super high-res gigapixel photograph of a 17th century still-life by Rachel Ruysch.
- We post about women artists every day on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Follow us!
Online Exhibitions
Paper Routes
Ambreen Butt
DMV Color
What to Read
Blog
Our Broad Strokes blog features in-depth explorations of artworks and stories of artists in our collection and exhibitions. Every week we publish Art Fix Friday, a round-up of news about women artists and notable exhibitions around the world. Creative Coping is a series where we check in with NMWA staff in their own homes for a personal look at the creative ways they’re staying connected, inspired, and grounded.
Magazine
Explore the museum’s collection and exhibition history through past issues of Women in the Arts magazine. The magazine features interviews with women artists, insightful essays by NMWA curators, and much more.
Related Posts
What to Watch
Paper Routes Studio Tours
Story Time with Women in the Arts
Art 21
Art 21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art. They’ve produced many videos about important women artists.
Tateshots
This series of short films explores the stories and achievements of contemporary artists. In honor of our #5WomenArtists campaign, Tate compiled a special playlist of over 130 videos highlighting women artists.
What to Do
Attend a Virtual Event
Related Events
Art Chat: Common Threads
Date: Dec, 27Time: 5 to 5:45 pm
Artist Talk: Suchitra Mattai
Date: Jan, 08Time: 6 to 7 pm
Art Chat
Date: Jan, 24Time: 5 to 5:45 pm
Coloring Books
What better soothing activity for an art lover is there besides coloring! We’ve created the first ever NMWA Coloring Book, featuring some favorite artworks from the collection and a few you might not know. Just print the PDF at home and get coloring!
Other coloring pages featuring women artists:
- This special pack features works by Mary Cassatt from the NMWA collection.
- Femme Fatale D.C. is a platform for womxn creatives and entrepreneurs to collaborate by sharing their passions. Their coloring pages feature the work of female-identifying artists and creators in the D.C. area
- Charlene Eckels is a Bolivian-American artist, whose interest lies in intersecting the two through interactive education. Due to COVID-19, she is offering free bilingual coloring pages and paper dolls.
Go on a Scavenger Hunt
Take part in a virtual scavenger hunt to learn more about #5WomenArtists. Use these prompts to enjoy NMWA@Home and discover five artists in the museum’s collection and online exhibitions.
Contribute to Wikipedia
Though our seventh annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon was postponed, you can create or improve entries about notable women artists anytime, anywhere! This guide explains how and provides a basic overview of Wikipedia editing practices.
Relax with Slow Art
Each year in April, NMWA participates in Slow Art Day, an international event encouraging people of all ages to visit museums and to look at art slowly in order to develop a better understanding of it. This guide introduces simple slow looking prompts that you can practice from home.
What to Learn
See For Yourself Cards
Create your own museum experience using our fun, interactive See For Yourself art cards. Use them to engage with artworks, discover fascinating facts, and reflect on your experience. We’re also creating special NMWA@Home packs:
- D.C. Women Artists: These five women artists in NMWA’s collection called Washington, D.C., home for a significant part of their lives and important contributions as teachers, mentors, and role models.
- 5 Artists/5 Continents: Be an armchair traveler across five continents as you discover the work by these five women artists in NMWA’s collection.
- Critter Capers: Discover creatures real and imagined in the works of these five women artists in NMWA’s collection.
Library and Research Center Guides
Perfect for high school and college students, the research guides created by the LRC staff feature curated bibliographies and online resources for topics like artist Graciela Iturbide, art historian Linda Nochlin, and contributing to Wikipedia. Additional guides will continue to be added.
Other Learning Resources
- NMWA Senior Educator Addie Gayoso moderates a weekly interactive feature from The New York Times called, “What’s Going On in This Picture?” Each Monday, Times shares intriguing images stripped of their captions and invites students to discuss them live.
- The D.C. Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative has created the Distance Learning Resource Database, a compilation of online and printable arts and humanities learning resources for students, teachers, and families. The database includes resources submitted by NMWA educators.
Art, Books, and Creativity
Art, Books, and Creativity (ABC) is a model arts integration curriculum developed by NMWA. The curriculum unites visual arts and language arts through the creation of artists’ books, while also maintaining a specific focus on the cultural contributions of women artists.
- The ABC curriculum comprises fourteen lesson plans, high resolution images, artists’ biographies, book-making instructions, and a vocabulary list. Lesson plans and vocabulary lists are available in English and Spanish versions.
- Explore our library of short video clips related to the ABC curriculum. Clips by artists, teachers, writers, and students demonstrate book forms and art media; offer suggestions for developing text and images; and provide ideas for integrating visual arts into the core curriculum.
What to Listen To
Here are our recommendations for podcasts about women artists:
- The Great Women Artists: Presented by art historian and curator Katy Hessel, this podcast interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers on the female artist who means the most to them.
- The Lonely Palette: In conjuction with the MFA Boston and inspired by #5WomenArtists, the Lonely Palette is releasing a series focusing on five works on view in MFA Boston’s exhibition Women Take the Floor.
- Bow Down: Women in Art History: Bow Down is a podcast from Frieze about significant women artists from the past who deserve our attention. Each episode invites an artist, writer, historian or curator to nominate an artist to whom we should all … well, bow down.
- Recording Artists: Radical Women: Host Helen Molesworth delves into the lives and careers of six women artists who made art during the feminist and civil rights movements. This podcast is based on interviews drawn from the archives of the Getty Research Institute.
- Beyond the Paint: This podcast series celebrates female artists, the rebellious and fearless women who dismantle artistic traditions in Western Art. A journey through a work of art through the lens of the feminine experience.
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With Thanks
NMWA@Home is generously sponsored by Marcia Myers Carlucci.
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