Archive Transcribe-a-thon: Frida Kahlo Papers
Posted: July 3, 2024
Category: Library And Research Center
Dominique Manuel, NMWA’s digital asset manager, discusses the museum’s first-ever archive transcribe-a-thon dedicated to the letters of Frida Kahlo.
![A handwritten letter by Frida Kahlo in Spanish on a piece of tan colored paper that is torn in half.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Kahlo_-Matilde-Calderon-de_-undated-Letter-001_18328-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
We spoke with Asmaa Walton, founder of Black Art Library, a mobile collection of Black visual art books and other art history ephemera.
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Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for NMWA
Posted: October 16, 2023
Category: Library And Research Center
Nine new works by book artists inaugurate the museum's new Learning Commons and celebrate spaces where women's creativity blooms.
![An artist's book in the form of a rectangular box. The exterior of the box is painted to resemble the exterior of a building.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Solis_Photo-Charles_White-jwpictures.com-DSCF7583_44389-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Moving Mountains: Renovation Updates from the LRC
Posted: October 20, 2021
Category: Library And Research Center
What does it take to move a library like NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center? Hear from Lynora Williams, director of the LRC, about the process, plans for...
![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)
Curious about the context that informs Sonya Clark’s art? NMWA’s Library and Research Center selected works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for further reading, drawing on Clark’s own book collection.
![A paperback copy of Ralph Ellison's novel 'Invisible Man' sits on a white surface. The book features black text and short, green, vertical lines on a white background. Atop the book is a book-like shape comprising black beads.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Black-Man-Invisible-_1_-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Join us for our next Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Saturday, March 6, when we will improve or create entries for women artists of African descent whose work is in NMWA’s collection.
![A woman with ombré dreadlocks sits at a table working on her laptop. Two other women are doing the same thing at different tables directly behind and in front of the woman.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2018-03-17_Wikipedia-Edit-a-thon_37_E_C-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Hit the Books with NMWA: Women, Arts, and Social Change
Posted: December 7, 2020
Category: Library And Research Center
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion this month, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: books...
![A dark-skinned woman with short cropped hair speaks into a microphone at a podium. Behind her a banner reads "National Museum of Women in the Arts." She wears a colorful abstract print blouse.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KAP_NMWA_FT_2019_04_24_025-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: fiction.
![Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1990.109_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Hit the Books with NMWA: Young Adult Fiction
Posted: October 26, 2020
Category: Library And Research Center
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: young...
![A black-and-white double-page spread of comics that depicts what various people are doing throughout the span of an evening. The people are all light-skinned and performing different activities such as smoking, yoga, reading, writing, barbecuing, and eating.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/summer-schedule-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-3600x330.jpg)
Julie Chen creates elaborate books that ask readers to do more than simply turn pages. NMWA's new exhibition presents more than a dozen captivating works from the artist's 33-year career.
![A close up photograph of an artist's book. Each layer of blue paper has an organic, irregular shape cut out of the middle so the layers form a tunnel. A line of text is printed in small type on each page, receding into the tunnel like an underwater cavern.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DSC02233-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-4240x330.jpg)