Impress your friends with five fast facts about Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero (b. 1963), who created four site-specific sculptures for NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project.
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). NMWA’s collection includes 20 of Abbott’s photographs taken between 1925 and 1954.
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Happy Birthday to Yoko Ono, who was born on this day in 1933! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artist, whose work is part of NMWA's collection.
![A black-and-white photograph of Yoko Ono in 1969, she wears her black hair long and sits in front of a window. The photo is cropped to her head and she smiles ever so slightly at the camera.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/yoko-ono-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about African American folk artist Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887–1998), whose colorful works are in NMWA’s collection.
![Rendered in a childlike style, the painting depicts a dark-skinned woman in a blue dress offering a bouquet of red flowers to a photograph of the artist affixed to canvas. The woman stands next to a tree surrounded by red flowers with blue sky and gray clouds above her.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1996.11-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Lorna Simpson (b. 1960), whose work III (1994) is in NMWA’s collection.
![A collage of pop star Rihanna wearing a black bra, skirt, and elaborate black feathered headdress overlaid atop a vintage photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RihannabyLornaSimpson_Bridge-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Happy birthday to Barbara Kruger, who was born on this day in 1945! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the conceptual artist, whose work is part of NMWA's...
![A black-and-white photo of a light-skinned woman sitting on a stool in an artist's studio, looking down at a large circular fabric/textile work. She holds a bottle of gesso and a paint brush.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SKatz_TWIA_11_02_BarbaraKruger_frame07-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Delita Martin, whose work is featured in the online exhibition Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits.
![A mixed-media work shows two seated figures facing each other; the first woman sits cross-legged staring confidently out at viewer while the second woman is masked and gazes elsewhere. In the background blue abstract shapes with two orange orbs fill the space between them.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Moon-and-the-Little-Bird-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1439x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about photographer Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006).
![A black-and-white photo that is taken through a rain-spotted screen. Past the screen, the out-of-focus outline of a tree is visible, with a narrow trunk and many wayward branches that expand into a large canopy.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2018.40-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![A black-and-white print of two dark-skinned individuals in profile, facing left. The person in the background is an older adult wearing a brimmed hat, and in the foreground and slightly to the right is a young child with coarse hair cut close to the head.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2001.132-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.png)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Kirsten Justesen, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![A black-and-white self-portrait of a light-skinned older woman with shoulder-length blonde hair who lays on the middle shelf of a large wooden cabinent. She is in a relaxed fetal position; one hand props her head up and the other is draped over the shelf. Above her a collection of tiny statues are arranged by size, on the shelf below her are a tea pot and two boxes.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2014.27-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)