Did you know that even though women make up 51% of visual artists today, in the U.S. only 5% of work on museum walls is by women? It is no...
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In September, the National Museum of Women in the Arts launched a new public programs initiative, Women, Arts, and Social Change, focusing on women and the arts as catalysts for...
![A woman with a medium-dark skin tone and shirt, black hair is giving a lecture before a white banner reading "National Museum of Women in the Arts." She is wearing a forest-green dress and slightly bends her body towards her right.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/KAP_NMWA_SundaySupper_11_15_2015-040_4407-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
NMWA’s latest initiative, Women, Arts, and Social Change, kicked off Sunday, October 18, with FRESH TALK: Righting the Balance. The new public program focuses on women and the arts as...
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NMWA receives Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom
Posted: April 30, 2015
Category: Advocacy
On January 9, Director Susan Fisher Sterling accepted the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom on behalf of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, during a ceremony...
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Despite everything we learned in school about sticks and stones, language has an immense impact on the world. Words transform perceptions, and once words are spoken they can continue to...
![A silhouette of a woman painting and several words in red and black. The words include "Defensive" and "Jitters", repeatedly painted onto the surface.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2004.23_627-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
The gender gap in the arts is narrowing, yet women continue to only make up around 25% of solo gallery shows, and in 30 years of prizes, a woman has...
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NMWA is thrilled to host the fourth Women to Watch exhibition, Organic Matters, from June 5 to September 13, 2015. Developed in collaboration with the museum’s national and international outreach...
![View of a gallery space. In big letters green , the text on the wall reads "Women to Watch: Organic Matters, 2015."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Organic-Matters-2015-Exhibiton_01_7593-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Earlier this fall, National Museum of Women in the Arts Director Susan Fisher Sterling traveled to Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, to present at the World Economic Forum’s eighth Annual...
![View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)