Recent library acquisitions: Bookplates by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová
Posted: January 27, 2015
Category: Library And Research Center
Museum visitors may remember the recent exhibition in NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center featuring wordless novels by the first woman graphic novelist, Czech artist Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová. Her bold black-and-white...
Between the years 1910 and 1915, American painter, illustrator, and printmaker Dulah Evans Krehbiel, along with artisans called the “Ridge Craft Girls,” designed a line of greeting cards.
Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Marbles” by Ellen Forney
Posted: November 5, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature fantastic contemporary graphic novels by women....
Images that Tell a Story: The First Woman Graphic Novelist
Posted: September 29, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
Posted: September 23, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature fantastic contemporary graphic novels by women....
If you do not remember Isabella d’Este from history books, you might remember her from Judy Chicago’s iconic installation The Dinner Party, where d’Este was given her own place setting!
LRC Book Review: Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1880
Posted: May 29, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
A recent acquisition at the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, this compilation includes 46 biographical narratives written by the artists’ contemporaries, more than half of which are newly...
Controversial Representations of Sexuality in Feminist Art
Posted: April 18, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Judy Chicago’s installation The Dinner Party premiered in San Francisco on March 1979. Soon after, it received backlash from the public because the recurring “butterfly” motif in Chicago’s dinner plates...
Including the Excluded: NMWA’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Posted: March 25, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
The internet has become one of the most readily used resources for answers to myriad questions. A quick Google keyword search will often land a Wikipedia link for inquiring minds...
Anita Steckel: Fighting Censorship and Double Standards
Posted: January 28, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
According to materials from the archive of artist Anita Steckel, before she revealed her solo exhibition The Sexual Politics of Feminist Art at Rockville Community College in 1973, a female...
