Images of Conflict: Ambreen Butt and Margaret Bourke-White

May 8, 2019

From The Collection

Conflict zones have historically been male-dominated spaces, for those participating in war and struggle as well as those documenting the events. Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and multimedia artist Ambreen Butt offer...

A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult woman standing next to a vintage camera mounted on legs.

Allons-y! Exploring Francophone Sculpture in NMWA’s Collection

May 6, 2019

From The Collection

Visitors from the Young Women’s Francophone Meetup Group explored the collection galleries to learn more about Francophone women artists while practicing their French. The group found common threads among three...

Director’s Desk: Rebels with a Cause

April 11, 2019

From The Collection

Explore the themes featured in NMWA's most recent collection installation with NMWA director Susan Fisher Sterling.

Eight diverse women museum visitors are scattered throughout the NMWA collection galleries browsing the art on the walls.

5 Fast Facts: Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses

March 13, 2019

From The Collection

Impress your friends with five fast facts about painter Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961), whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.

Bucolic landscape rendered in a naive, folk-style of painting. The horizontal composition features a patchwork of yellow and green fields on rolling hills set against a blue-gray sky. In the foreground study farm buildings surround small figures tending to the land.

5 Fast Facts: Magdalena Abakanowicz

March 6, 2019

From The Collection

As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.

Ten larger-than-life bronze sculptures of human bodies are installed in the middle of a city street. The bodies have no heads or arms, and are striding forward in five rows of two. While they are not naked, their wrinkled body-tight clothing makes no distinction between shirt and pants.

5 Fast Facts: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

February 25, 2019

From The Collection

Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose work is on view in NMWA’s newly reinstalled collection galleries.

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.

“We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard”: Barbara Kruger’s Imagery and Hollywood’s Gender Inequity

February 21, 2019

From The Collection

In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin penned the essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” The now-famous piece interrogated the systematic obstacles that have prevented women from succeeding...

Black and white image of a light skinned woman in a pearl necklace and holding binoculars to her eyes, on a gray and white vertically striped background. Superimposed over the image are four red horizontal bands with 'We will no longer be seen and not heard' in white block letters.

5 Fast Facts: Laure Tixier

February 18, 2019

From The Collection

Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Laure Tixier). Tixier’s Plaid Houses (Maquettes) (2005–11), currently on view in NMWA’s collection galleries, explore a range of architectural styles in...