News And Updates

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.

#5WomenArtists Goes Global

Posted: April 24, 2017
Category: News And Updates
In honor of Women’s History Month, the museum launched the second year of its award-winning #5WomenArtists social media campaign, which asks, “Can you name five women artists?” The museum invited...

Down to a Science: #5WomenArtists Spark #5WomenScientists

Posted: April 7, 2017
Category: News And Updates
For Women’s History Month, NMWA posed the question, “Can you name five women artists?” While social media users shared stories of women artists with #5WomenArtists, other science museums, and cultural...
Close-up photograph shows a trumpet-shaped flower against a dark black background. The flower's striated long neck erupts in a profusion of purple and white petals that dominate the composition.

Opening Tomorrow: Prints by Polly Apfelbaum

Posted: March 9, 2017
Category: News And Updates
Images that embody both precision and spontaneity are the focus of NMWA’s new exhibition Chromatic Scale: Prints by Polly Apfelbaum, on view from March 10 to July 2, 2017.
Twelve vertical columns, each a different color, of repeating flower, pinwheel, and starburst shapes on a white background.

Digging In: Vessels by Jami Porter Lara in “Border Crossing”

Posted: March 2, 2017
Category: News And Updates
Now on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Border Crossing: Jami Porter Lara presents recent work by Albuquerque-based artist Jami Porter Lara (b. 1969), who hand-builds...
Installation view of a gallery space. On a bright blue wall, it says in big black letters "Border crossing" and "Jami Porter Lara". Underneath are three exposed shelves covered in small black bottle sculptures.

Challenge Accepted: Can You Name Five Women Artists?

Posted: February 27, 2017
Category: News And Updates
Back by popular demand this March, the National Museum of Women in the Arts continues to ask, “Can you name five women artists?” This simple question calls attention to the...

Opening Tomorrow: Border Crossing and New Ground

Posted: February 16, 2017
Category: News And Updates
On Friday, February 17th, NMWA will open two exhibitions featuring women artists of the Southwest. In Border Crossing: Jami Porter Lara, Albuquerque-based artist Jami Porter Lara (b. 1969) uses a...
Shelves of small misshapen bottles in various shapes with the name of the exhibition above: Border Crossing: Jami Porter Lara above

Opening This Friday: NO MAN’S LAND

Posted: September 26, 2016
Category: News And Updates
Large-scale paintings and sculptural hybrids reveal the expressive range of women artists in NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, on view from September 30, 2016, to...
View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says in white, bold letters: "NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection". There is a textile sculpture hanging from the ceiling in the room behind the wall.

Appreciating Architecture: #EmptyNMWA Instameet

Posted: July 18, 2016
Category: News And Updates
More than 25 D.C.-area Instagrammers visited NMWA on June 17, 2016, for a before-hours Instameet. With access to the empty galleries, local photographers explored the museum’s building and collection, as...
Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.

On View: Salon Style in the Eulabee Dix Gallery

Posted: June 21, 2016
Category: News And Updates
In an effort to place more of NMWA’s collection on view to the public, the staff recently reinstalled the Eulabee Dix Gallery, located on the museum’s fourth floor, “salon style.”
Bucolic landscape rendered in a naive, folk-style of painting. The horizontal composition features a patchwork of yellow and green fields on rolling hills set against a blue-gray sky. In the foreground study farm buildings surround small figures tending to the land.

The Pre-K Invasion: Developing New Tours for Young Audiences

Posted: May 24, 2016
Category: News And Updates
A group of kids standing on colorful mats in a museum space. They are looking towards an oil portrait of a woman in regal garments. A woman with a light skin tone and blonde hair is talking in front of the children.