In the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Steckel fought for the public acceptance of explicitly sexual art made by women, as part of the broader feminist art movement that was pushing...
A Case of Mistaken Identity? Spotlight on Lilla Cabot Perry
Posted: November 19, 2013
Category: Artist Spotlight
Lady with a Bowl of Violets (ca. 1910) has been called one of NMWA’s “best-loved works.”
Ellen Day Hale can be seen as a woman artist who was given opportunities not afforded to many other women of her time, showing the huge artistic benefits conferred by...
As an artist, Faith Ringgold has always worked to tell her story. She created bold, provocative paintings during the 1960s, directly responding to the Civil Rights and feminist movements.
Fluid Identities: The “Parts” and “Projects” of Nikki Lee
Posted: November 1, 2013
Category: Artist Spotlight
Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger's Hybrid Creatures: Part 2 of 2
Posted: October 25, 2013
Category: Artist Spotlight
On view at NMWA through November 10, in Awake in the Dream World, Audrey Niffenegger’s work includes an array of fantastical, surreal, and dreamlike creatures. One of Niffenegger’s artistic and...
Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger’s Hybrid Creatures: Part 1 of 2
Posted: October 24, 2013
Category: Artist Spotlight
The visual novels of Audrey Niffenegger (b. 1963) are replete with curiously concocted creatures that serve as the primary narrative tools for advancing her bizarre, dreamlike tales.
Just a few city blocks from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the White House famously serves as the residence for the President and his (or someday, her)...
Audrey Niffenegger's Self-Portraits: Fiction or Autobiography?
Posted: October 8, 2013
Category: Artist Spotlight
“The self-portrait is like writing in the first person…There are a variety of ways to use it,” Audrey Niffenegger has said. Within NMWA’s Niffenegger exhibition, Awake in the Dream World,...
Though Audrey Niffenegger may be best known for her 2003 novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, the “Adventures in Bookland” gallery in NMWA’s current exhibition of her work showcases her sensational...