NMWA @ Home: Creative Coping with Melani N. Douglass and Orin Zahra
Posted: April 13, 2020
Category: Behind The Scenes
As NMWA remains temporarily closed due to COVID-19, we check in with staff for a personal look at the creative ways they’re staying connected, inspired, and grounded.
![A color photograph of a large, ornate room in a palace. The expansive floor is bare and empty. At the other end of the room, a large ornate mirror hangs between two dark wooden doors. The moldings and details above the doors and mirror are extravagantly designed and a dramatic mural is featured at the very top of the wall. In the mirror, a small figure is seen, seemingly the photographer.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2014.105-_2_-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
NMWA @ Home: Creative Coping with Lynora Williams and Adrienne Poon
Posted: April 2, 2020
Category: Behind The Scenes
As NMWA remains temporarily closed due to COVID-19, we check in with staff for a personal look at the creative ways they’re staying connected, inspired, and grounded.
![Large vertical painting in minimalist style features thinned pigments poured in translucent layers onto the unsized canvas. The abstract composition is dominated by a central ambiguous form in vibrant yellow-orange and peach, flanked by amorphous swaths of pale pink and a dark gray.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1986.82-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
Heavy Lifting: Behind the Scenes of The Contour of Feeling
Posted: May 20, 2019
Category: Behind The Scenes
A frequent question from visitors to the museum’s Ursula von Rydingsvard exhibition is: how did you get these sculptures into the building? A conversation with NMWA Registrar Catherine Bade revealed...
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More than 25 D.C.-area Instagrammers visited NMWA on June 17, 2016, for a before-hours Instameet. With access to the empty galleries, local photographers explored the museum’s building and collection, as...
![Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NWMA_Shoot_Photo_84-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
On March 8, 2016, the museum hosted an #EmptyNMWA instameet (a gathering of Instagram photographers) in honor of International Women’s Day. NWMA welcomed 30 local instagrammers to visit the museum...
![Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NWMA_Shoot_Photo_84-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
In honor of International Women’s Day, NMWA will host an #EmptyNMWA instameet on Tuesday, March 8. An “instameet” is an opportunity for photographers to gather, meet, and snap pictures for...
![Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NWMA_Shoot_Photo_84-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
Did you know that NMWA launched its first-ever online exhibition, A Global Icon: Mary in Context, in conjunction with Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea?
![View of a gallery space with blue walls. On the left is a painting of a woman in a dark blue dress in a golden frame. Next to it is a red cloth framed in glass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Picturing-Mary-Exhibition_07_15999-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
Looking Forward: Women to Watch 2015—Organic Matters
Posted: November 21, 2014
Category: Behind The Scenes
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)
Behind the Scenes in the Registrar’s Office: Crates, Notes, and Dust Motes
Posted: September 4, 2014
Category: Behind The Scenes
Visitors to the National Museum of Women in the Arts have no doubt seen Anne Vallayer-Coster’s majestic portrait of Madame de Saint-Huberty in the Role of Dido, which currently hangs...
![Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NWMA_Shoot_Photo_84-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-3-700x330.jpg)