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: nonfiction.
Opposites Attract: Linda Nochlin and Joan Mitchell
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September 28, 2020
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Library And Research Center
The close friendship between art historian, critic, and curator Linda Nochlin and painter Joan Mitchell may have thrived in part because Nochlin’s analytic ice proved a valuable counterpoint to Mitchell’s...
Hit the Books with NMWA: Graphic Novels
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August 26, 2020
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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. First up: graphic...
Much of the way historians study art today can be traced to the contributions of Linda Nochlin, a scholar, critic, and curator who, beginning in the 1960s, tore through traditional...
Women Artists of the DMV: Maria Verónica San Martín’s “In Their Memory”
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January 23, 2020
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Library And Research Center
Maria Verónica San Martín's work functions as a tactile form of resistance—it critically examines power structures and the sanitization of historical atrocities.
Women Artists of the DMV: Malaka Gharib’s “I Was Their American Dream”
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November 27, 2019
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Library And Research Center
Malaka Gharib's graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, chronicles her multicultural upbringing as the daughter of a Filipino Catholic mother and an Egyptian Muslim father.
The Judy Chicago Research Portal: Preserving an Artistic Legacy
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November 6, 2019
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Library And Research Center
Feminist artist Judy Chicago has spent her career teaching and making art that centers her experiences as a woman. As part of Chicago’s efforts to overcome the erasure that has...
Washington, D.C., and its surroundings have long been home to a rich community of artists of color, including those born and raised here and others who built connections to the...
Power in My Hand: Five Women Artists in Conversation with Emily Dickinson
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October 23, 2019
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Library And Research Center
Five works in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s exhibition Power in My Hand: Women Poets, Women Artists, and Social Change testify to the enduring legacy of Emily...
Portraits with Voices: Susan Katz’s “The Woman I Am” Project
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July 23, 2018
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Library And Research Center
Katz is an American photographer from Brooklyn, who in the early 1970s became involved with the Women’s Liberation Movement, anti-racist activism, and the New York art scene. The Woman I...
