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Archive: Jul 2011

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Art Herstory
Posted: July 25, 2011
Category: Archive: Jul 2011
Discrimination in the art world is not a new topic, and since the second wave of feminism, more focus has been placed on discrimination against women artists. (The second wave...
Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."

Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Guerrilla Girls in Venice
Posted: July 21, 2011
Category: Archive: Jul 2011
Some of the most recent works in NMWA’s The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back are from the Girls’s 2005 showing at the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art fair that has taken...
Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."

Living out Desire through Julia Jacquette’s Work
Posted: July 18, 2011
Category: Archive: Jul 2011
NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, features one of Julia Jacquette’s recent works, White Square (2004).
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.

Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Elaine de Kooning
Posted: July 12, 2011
Category: Archive: Jul 2011
Elaine (Fried) de Kooning (1918–89), primarily known for her Abstract Expressionist portrait paintings, was also an influential art teacher at institutions including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Parsons School of Design,...
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.

Ask Heather Monthly Feature: Treasures of the Library and Research Center: exploring the Doris Lee Archive
Posted: July 1, 2011
Category: Archive: Jul 2011
Want to know more about a lesser-known woman artist? The history of NMWA? A history of fashion worn to NMWA Galas? Heather Slania, director of NMWA’s Library and Research Center,...
Two rows of colorfully painted fruits on a white background, mostly red apples with slices cut out of them. Other fruits depicted include plums, a banana, grapes, a green apple, and a lemon.