Happy Birthday to Margaret Bourke-White, who was born on this day in 1904! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artist, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult woman standing next to a vintage camera mounted on legs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2014.23-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Happy birthday to Howardena Pindell, who was born on this day in 1943! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artist, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![An older woman with medium-dark skin tone smiles slightly while standing in front of an abstract painting. She wears a colorful scarf atop a light-blue corduroy jacket.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Howardena-Pindell_21108-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Happy Birthday, Mary Ellen Mark! Impress your friends with five fast facts about this iconic documentary photographer (1940–2015), whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned girl submerged in a white bathtub. Only her head is visible above the soap suds, and her dark hair hangs over the side of the tub. The floor beneath the tub is tiled.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2020.28-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artists whose works have transformed and informed the practice of Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960).
![A square, vibrant print with colorful pink flowers and colorful, mandala-like circles against a geometric background of different colored rectangles and vertical stripes.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2008.96-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Happy Birthday Alexandra Exter! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the Russian and French painter and designer (1882–1949), whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![Painting of a male figure in an elaborate costume. An abstract arrangement of bright colors and unexpected forms features voluminous chartreuse left sleeve, a blue pointed cuff and lightning bolt motif on the right sleeve, and a fabric belt and multicolored train.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1986.70_110-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Today is National Twin Day. Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist duo Jane and Louise Wilson (b. 1967), whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![A long, empty corridor with white-tiled walls, floors, and ceiling is lit with a warm glow from the lights that hang in the middle of the ceiling.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2013.83_13182-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
In 2022, NMWA added more than 100 artworks by approximately 60 artists to our growing collection. Of these artists, one-third are completely new to it. Impress your friends with fast...
![A round, straw basket filled with red apples and pale fruits and vegetables on a stone ledge against a light background. A light blue vase with pink and white carnations sits beside the basket. Two oblong, mottled seashells sit in front of the basket and vase.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022.25_Garzoni_Giovanna_Still_Life_w_Basket_43891-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about NMWA collection artists whose works are inspired by the written word!
![A close up photograph of an artist's book. Each layer of blue paper has an organic, irregular shape cut out of the middle so the layers form a tunnel. A line of text is printed in small type on each page, receding into the tunnel like an underwater cavern.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC02233-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Across time and place, artists have been inspired by dancers, and some are even performers themselves. Impress your friends with five fast facts about NMWA collection artists who saw movement...
![Black-and-white photograph of a man, dressed in black, and Martha Graham, in white, dancing. Graham, lit from above, strikes one of her famous angular poses, both legs bent, the back foot pointing behind her. Her raised arms are held by the man, who stand](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1997.183_455-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about actors and the visual artists in NMWA's collection who portrayed them!
![Realistic painting of a light-skinned woman with elaborately-coiffed medium-brown hair, gazing at the viewer, wearing a classic white silk dress and red draped cape with gold embellishments, gesturing dramatically with one hand over her heart and the other extended outward.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2003.17_transp_596-e1678304139255-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)