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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Disability Activism
Posted: September 4, 2024
Category: Advocacy
Learn about #5WomenArtists whose Wikipedia pages were created or enhanced during this year's edit-a-thon, which focused on disability activism.
A miniature watercolor painting features a light-skinned woman with underdeveloped arms wearing a white dress with a blue ribbon tied around the bodice. Her curly brown hair is worn up in a bow. She looks at the viewer with a neutral expression.

Disability and Dress: An Interview with Natalie Wright
Posted: July 26, 2024
Category: Advocacy
July is Disability Pride Month. As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, we spoke with art historians and disability advocates who are working at this intersection.
A black-and-white photo of a woman in a wheelchair wearing stylish 1970s dress.

An Art History of Pharmaceuticals: An Interview with Phillippa Pitts
Posted: July 23, 2024
Category: Advocacy
July is Disability Pride Month. As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, we spoke with art historians and disability advocates who are working at this intersection.
A 19th-century medial illustration shows a male doctor inflating his patient like a water balloon.

#5WomenArtists Art+: Television and Screenwriters
Posted: July 27, 2023
Category: Advocacy
We spoke with five television and screenwriters about their work, favorite writers, and why the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is important to them.
Six people stand wearing matching blue hats and shirts hold up and walk behind a large banner sign that says "Writers Guild on Strike." Behind them is a mass of other people holding picketing signs and chanting.

#5WomenPoets on #5WomenArtists
Posted: April 27, 2023
Category: Advocacy
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re highlighting five contemporary poets inspired by artists whose works are in our collection.
An enamel portrait painting of a woman made with encrusted black rhinestones glued to shiny pink acrylic background.

5 Questions with Sayaka Suzuki
Posted: September 1, 2022
Category: Advocacy
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s award-winning #5WomenArtists campaign champions emerging and underrepresented artists. With the help of partner arts organizations around the country, we’re featuring the work and voices of selected artists...
Two light skinned individuals sit on short wooden stools facing one another. They each hold a bird-shaped figure in one hand and are passing it to the other.

5 Questions with Amy Hughes Braden
Posted: August 3, 2022
Category: Advocacy
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s award-winning #5WomenArtists campaign champions emerging and underrepresented artists. With the help of partner arts organizations around the country, we’re featuring the work and voices of selected artists...
Header image: An assemblage of a variety of objects with different textures such as stones, textiles, beads, wood, and paper. The objects are painted mainly in red and pink colors and stacked on top of each other, creating a chaotic, colorful scene.

5 Questions With Very Sad Lab
Posted: March 15, 2022
Category: Advocacy
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign will champion emerging and underrepresented artists. Get to know D.C.-based houseplant rehabilitation duo Very Sad Lab!
An installation view of a tiny gallery space shows a long wood desk and shelving set up against one wall, holding jars and pots of plant clippings with a flat screen TV mounted to the wall in the center. The back wall is painted green with white text on it: "The Incubator Resource Lab." More plants hang from the ceiling. The floor is concrete and painted dark grey.

5 Questions with Stephanie J. Williams
Posted: January 27, 2022
Category: Advocacy
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign will champion emerging and underrepresented artists. Get to know D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist Stephanie J. Williams!
In this screen still from a puppet stop motion animation, miniature sculptures made from wood, metal, and other materials are arranged on top of, and hang above, green turf, set against a pitch black background. The sculpture's shadows appear on the turf. The sculptures are made up of various circular designs.

Forming a More Perfect Union
Posted: April 14, 2021
Category: Advocacy
Web designer Sue Anna Joe created the central magnolia motif on Mississippi’s new state flag, which recently replaced the original flag’s Confederate imagery. We asked Joe to consider Sonya Clark’s...
A photograph of two figures standing side by side, unraveling the threads of an American Confederate battle flag. The figure on the left has light skin, and the figure on the right has darker skin. They face away from the camera, with their hands in the center of the image pulling loose the threads.