Impress your friends with five fast facts about Sharon Core, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in the collection galleries and in Super Natural.
![A full crystal sherry glass and plate mounded with raisins and iced cakes occupy the middle ground of a still-life photograph. Luscious green grapes sit in the left foreground, and greenery rises in the background. The image explicitly imitates18th-century, still-life paintings.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2014.32-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Jiha Moon is known for her blend of traditional materials and pop culture iconography. Like a “cartographer of cultures,” Moon is interested in creating images that can be read differently...
![A round, ceramic vessel glazed unevenly in glossy celadon has a bulging body incised with abstract shapes. Matte turquoise glaze dribbling down from the rim obscures portions of the pale green and fully coats one of two peach-shaped orbs projecting from either side of the neck.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2015.55_from-artist-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about artist Patricia Piccinini, who is known for The Stags and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
![A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2014.120_from-artist-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
![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/2024/01/Organic-Matters-2015-Exhibiton_01_7593-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
![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/2024/01/Organic-Matters-2015-Exhibiton_01_7593-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Daisy Makeig-Jones, whose work is on view at NMWA through August 16 in Casting a Spell, created Fairyland Lusterware for the Wedgwood pottery company in the early 20th century. These...
![Detail image of a ceramic punchbowl painted with blue, green, red, and purple tones. The details of a mythological scene are painted in gold on top of the swaths of color.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2019.22_detail_44182-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
![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/2024/02/Organic-Matters-2015-Exhibiton_01_7593-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Patricia Piccinini’s The Stags is currently on view in NMWA’s summer exhibition Super Natural. In sleek and shimmering fiberglass, the two large sculptural pieces of The Stags combine characteristics of...
![A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2014.120_from-artist-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artist Polly Morgan talks about her process and work, which is featured in Organic Matters, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
![Old-fashioned black Bakelite telephone receiver with seven taxidermied chick heads with open beaks protruding from the earpiece.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Revival-Collection-Detail-_1_-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Petah Coyne and Polly Morgan are influenced by the art of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. Both artists bring forth otherworldly creations through extremely labor and time intensive processes. The...
![Myriad layers of melted pink and white wax encrust and obscure the metal armature for this abstract sculpture, which hangs from satin-wrapped chains. Its color and shape, as well as the bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral accretions.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2013.10-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)