Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Zanele Muholi, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Chakaia Booker, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Lola Álvarez Bravo, one of Mexico’s first women photographers.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Graciela Iturbide, revealing how her process and pictures shed new light on other photographs on view in the museum’s collection.
Known for capturing the individual and collective human spirit, Ruth Orkin was particularly adept at picturing remarkable women at remarkable moments.
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Mickalene Thomas
Posted: March 30, 2020
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Artist Mickalene Thomas's vibrant works have established a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, race, and power, while centering queer identity.
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Rosângela Rennó
Posted: March 25, 2020
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Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó works with discarded photographs found in flea markets, family albums, newspapers, and public archives to question the nature and symbolic value of an image.
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Kara Walker
Posted: March 18, 2020
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Multidisciplinary artist Kara Walker candidly investigates topics of race, gender, sexuality, and violence.
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Susan Goethel Campbell
Posted: March 11, 2020
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Multidisciplinary artist Susan Goethel Campbell creates installations, videos, prints, drawings, and artists’ books to highlight the indistinguishable characteristics of nature, culture, and the built environment.
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Guerrilla Girls
Posted: March 4, 2020
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Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls, a collective of anonymous feminist activist artists, have brought widespread attention to the issues of sexism and racism in the art world.