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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.
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Sister Mary Corita on PBS!

Posted: April 17, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Kathryn A. Wat was recently interviewed by PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Wat described R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, NMWA’s current exhibition of Corita’s...
A white room with a wall in the foreground that has bold, red and orange text that reads ‘R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, March 9–July 15, 2012.’ In the background, bold and colorful prints with text are hang on a white wall.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Posted: April 10, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
In Royalists to Romantics: Woman Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Marguerite Gérard

Posted: April 3, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Angélique Mongez

Posted: March 26, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun

Posted: March 22, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun was one of the most celebrated painters of pre-Revolutionary Paris and is today the best-known female artist of her generation
A portrait of a light-skinned woman with powdered brown hair tucked under a white wrap with a golden border. She is wearing a blue jacket with a red sash tied around her waist.

When Nature Takes Over

Posted: March 15, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
When Dalya Luttwak was invited to do a site-specific installation for the Kreeger Museum, she took the path less traveled, literally. On the periphery of the museum grounds stands a...
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.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Marie Guilhelmine Benoist

Posted: March 13, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita is Far Out

Posted: March 9, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is getting groovy this spring with the opening of R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita. The exhibition features 65 never-before-exhibited prints created between...
A white room with a wall in the foreground that has bold, red and orange text that reads ‘R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, March 9–July 15, 2012.’ In the background, bold and colorful prints with text are hang on a white wall.

Chakaia Booker: Evocative, Dynamic Works in the New York Avenue Sculpture Project

Posted: March 7, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
Chakaia Booker’s creative process involves exploring and exploiting the full artistic potential of rubber tires. She carefully selects tires with easy-to-cut, worn-out treads in order to transform them into her...
Two large abstract sculptures made from tires rise from a center median in a city street. The sculptures are wavy columns.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit—No. 2”: On view now at NMWA!

Posted: February 16, 2012
Category: Artist Spotlight
O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit” paintings were inspired by the flowers she saw around her summer home on Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Mountains.
A black-and-white photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe, seen from the shoulders up, her elbow propped on a car window and her chin leaning against her hand. She is a light-skinned, adult, older woman with dark hair pulled back in a neat bun.