Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Jiha Moon, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Abstract painting features translucent, wave-like turquoise, aquamarine, and fuchsia washes mingled with red lines and hard-edged, matte-pink sinuous shapes bounded by blue and green scales. Other details resolve into a human hand, tree-sprigged mountains, and craggy branches.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2012.26-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Tall, rectangular, pillar-like sculpture, painted in vibrant green hues on a smooth, clean surface. The sculpture stands against a solid white backdrop.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1986.325-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about painter Amy Sherald, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Wearing a bright yellow apron-style dress with strawberries and lace-trim details, an expressionless young woman with medium-dark skin tone rendered in grayscale stares out with her hands in her dress pockets. Her head is cocked to one side against an intensely pink-colored background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2012.2-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Loïs Mailou Jones, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Semi-abstract composition in shades of blue, orange, yellow, green, grey, white and burgundy. In the center, an orange oval with a black and white eye in the center, supported by symmetrical strips of semi-circles and diamonds. Vertical blocks of color reach upwards on both sides.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1997.105_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Colette Fu.
![Large-scale pop-up book with a dark haired woman behind a huge display of food. She wears a green dress and purple flowers in her hair and turns to look over her left shoulder. The food explodes forward with bowls of soup, skewered meat, banana leaves, pig tail, and more.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2015.11-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Kiki Smith (b. 1954), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Surrealist painter Remedios Varo, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
![Rendered with precise brushwork, a tall, thin figure strides forward wearing flowing, orange garments emanating a misty golden aura. Her fiery red hair stretches heavenward, encircling a celestial orb. Figures appear encased in the walls of the concave structure surrounding her.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2014.155-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2560x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about American assemblage artist Betye Saar, whose work is in NMWA’s collection.
![A black left hand with bright red nails and a red bracelet in a red wooden frame. It sits atop a black and red patterned background, fingers pointing toward a black medallion with an eye and other details. The red frame is surrounded by black and sits within a larger red frame.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2004.16-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar, whose work is on view in Alison Saar In Print through October 2, 2016.
![Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/56.2012-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about American photographer Justine Kurland, whose work is on view in NMWA’s third-floor galleries.
![Crouching in the shadow of a highway overpass, three teenage girls with light skin focus intently on lighting smoke bombs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2007.55-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)