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...
Writing and Righting History: 2018 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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April 12, 2018
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Library And Research Center
For the fifth year, Art+Feminism led the global initiative to improve the Wikipedia representation of women artists and to train women editors. NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center...
Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry
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November 21, 2017
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Library And Research Center
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference...
Wonder Women: Flappers Meet Underground Comics
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September 11, 2017
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Library And Research Center
NMWA could not host an exhibition called Wonder Women! without featuring several exceptional comics! The first group of objects on view in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center...
