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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.

A Curator's Travelogue: Women Artists of Rome

Posted: December 30, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
In this series of blog posts, NMWA Curator of Book Arts Krystyna Wasserman recounts a recent trip to Europe: The focus of a journey could be the exploration of a...
An all-white bicycle with a flat black sphere in the place of the rear wheel. A book is perched on a long arm extending from the handlebar mount, and pages of the book rest on the handlebars and are scattered on the ground.

Visions of the Orient Artist Spotlight: Elizabeth Keith

Posted: November 22, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Elizabeth Keith is one of four Western women artists featured in Visions of the Orient: Western Women Artists in Asia 1900–1940, on view at NMWA through January 15, 2012. Keith...
View of a gallery space. On a white wall, the text reads: "Visions of the Orient: Western Women Artists in Asia 1900–1940."

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Harbinger, Mediator, and Bridge Builder

Posted: September 29, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses her ancestry and her passion for Indigenous rights to create powerful images.
A horizontal canvas combines collaged paper, such as a scrap of a U.S. map, comic strip, and pictographs; cloth swatches; scrawled and dripped paint; and phrases like “It takes hard work to keep racism alive” and “Oh! Zone.” The work’s title appears in red paint right of center.

Fay Ku: Combining the Whimsical with the Unknown

Posted: September 19, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Fay Ku’s Sea Change, featured in NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, stands out among the many other lithographs for its striking subject matter...
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.

Nature and Continuity in Prints by Emmi Whitehorse

Posted: September 6, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Explore how Emmi Whitehorse's artworks illustrate a landscape over time and her relationship to nature.
Goldenrod yellow paint smudged across white paper in layers, creating different levels of opacity. Vertical red and black lines, and a few red and black shape outlines, mostly of tall ovals, are painted sporadically on the paper.

Statistics in The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Revealing the Hard Facts on Discrimination

Posted: August 31, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, on view at NMWA through October 2, immediately strikes viewers with overwhelming statistics and figures. The Girls have combined eye-grabbing graphics and startling numbers to...
Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."

Ynez Johnston's Lively and Evocative Compositions

Posted: August 24, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Ynez Johnston’s works throw viewers into a world that blends the ancient with the modern.
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.

Artist Spotlight: Ruth Asawa

Posted: August 9, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Ruth Asawa (b. January 24, 1926) had no ordinary childhood. During World War II, at the age of 16, Asawa and the rest of her family were taken from their...
A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.

Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Gego

Posted: August 4, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Gego first worked at the Tamarind Institute, then located in Los Angeles, during a 1963 trip to the United Stateswith Leufert. She returned for a two-month Tamarind fellowship in November...
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.