As the 2020 presidential election nears, we revisit the wisdom of Fresh Talk speaker, Alexandra Bell, an artist who explores how the news media shapes how we think about the...
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As the 2020 presidential election nears, we revisit the wisdom of Fresh Talk speaker, Kim Loper, an artist who critically examined the visual messaging of 19th-century suffrage propaganda, which centered...
![Kim Loper speaks at a podium on the stage of a NMWA Fresh Talk event. She is a light-skinned adult woman with curly, shoulder-length blonde hair, and is wearing a black top. Behind her is a projected presentation featuring flyers, brochures, and a mug full of pens that all say "Denylium."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SM1_9430-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2048x330.jpg)
As the 2020 presidential election nears, we revisit the wisdom of Fresh Talk speaker Adjoa Asamoah, a political strategist and racial equity advocate, who set the stage for a greater...
![Adjoa B. Asamoah—a dark-skinned adult woman—stands at a podium with the NMWA logo on the front. She speaks into a microphone while gesturing at a projected presentation slide behind her that reads “Black Women and Suffrage. Ida Wells and Mary Cherch Terrell: Two Strategies.”](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SM2_1515-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2048x330.jpg)
Salvadoran-born artist Johanna Toruño's street art celebrates and makes visible Queer, working class, and immigrant Black and Brown communities.
![A woman holds a paint roller and looks down, her hands at work; She stands next to a wheat paste mural that features bold black text overlaid on a peach background that features a rose. The text reads: "I woke up Brown/The way my mother](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/johanna-toruno-2-aspect-ratio-2.25-1.jpg)
Quest Skinner is a Washington, D.C.-based mixed-media artist, teacher, and community activist. In June, NMWA commissioned her to paint a mural on the plywood covering the museum’s façade on a...
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Tenbeete Solomon, also known as Trap Bob, is a Washington, D.C.-based visual artist, illustrator, and animator. Recently, NMWA commissioned Trap Bob to paint a mural on the plywood covering the...
![A square plywood mural of a dark-skinned face with a bubblegum pink afro and matching, full lips, against a black background. "CHANGE" is written in blue letters across the afro. The work is signed in the corner “@TRAPXBOB.”](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Change-Mural-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
In March, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists social media campaign launched for a fifth year of raising awareness about women artists, garnering more than 4,092 Instagram posts and 9,568 tweets.
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Over the past five seasons, we have brought prominent women in the arts together with individuals in other fields for 25 creative conversations on gender, equity, art, the environment, identity,...
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5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Mickalene Thomas
Posted: March 30, 2020
Category: Advocacy
Artist Mickalene Thomas's vibrant works have established a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, race, and power, while centering queer identity.
![An enamel portrait painting of a woman made with encrusted black rhinestones glued to shiny pink acrylic background.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2011.13-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Rosângela Rennó
Posted: March 25, 2020
Category: Advocacy
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.
![An indigenous women and three children of varying ages stand smiling in front of the concrete wall of a building that has some white and blue graffiti on it, in high yellow grass that is mostly dead. The women and children carry beautiful woven baskets. Below them the word "Oaxaca" is printed in yellow type.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2010.57.1-17c-2-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)