Library And Research Center

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.
Back to all blog posts

Anita Steckel: Equal Exposure

Posted: January 13, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
In the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Steckel fought for the public acceptance of explicitly sexual art made by women, as part of the broader feminist art movement that was pushing...
A book is lying in a glass case. The book shows text and a black-and-white photographic portrait of a woman's face.

From the Archives: Catharina Baart Biddle

Posted: May 1, 2012
Category: Library And Research Center
The Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts recently accepted an archival donation from the estate of artist Catharina Baart Biddle (1912–2005). The wealth...
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.

Ask Heather Monthly Feature: Treasures of the Library and Research Center: exploring the Doris Lee Archive

Posted: July 1, 2011
Category: Library And Research Center
Want to know more about a lesser-known woman artist? The history of NMWA? A history of fashion worn to NMWA Galas? Heather Slania, director of NMWA’s Library and Research Center,...
Two rows of colorfully painted fruits on a white background, mostly red apples with slices cut out of them. Other fruits depicted include plums, a banana, grapes, a green apple, and a lemon.

Ask Heather Monthly Feature

Posted: June 2, 2011
Category: Library And Research Center
Heather Slania is NMWA's new Director of the Library and Research Center. Prior to joining NMWA she worked at Georgetown University as a Research and Instruction Librarian and an Art, Art...
A bookshelf packed with colorful books about women artists.

Books Without Words (in a book with words)

Posted: September 16, 2010
Category: Library And Research Center
The catalogue for Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut includes essays by exhibition curator Krystyna Wasserman and Gut's fellow Italian book artist Mirella Bentivoglio, along with beautiful...
An all-white bicycle with a flat black sphere in the place of the rear wheel. A book is perched on a long arm extending from the handlebar mount, and pages of the book rest on the handlebars and are scattered on the ground.