Nmwa Exhibitions

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.
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Women to Watch 2024: Eliza Naranjo Morse

Posted: June 25, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 showcases 28 contemporary artists who respond to our extraordinary times. We spoke with participating artists about their work and practice.

Women to Watch 2024: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Posted: May 31, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 showcases 28 contemporary artists who respond to our extraordinary times. We spoke with participating artists about their work and practice.
A light-skinned Asian woman sits on a stool in an industrial space. Behind her are large, colorful sculptures. She has long black hair and wears a denim coat and blue pants. She holds two paintbrushes in her hands and smiles slightly at the camera.

Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella

Posted: May 21, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Virginia Treanor, NMWA senior curator, discusses the life and work of 17th-century French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella on the occasion of the exhibition Impressive.
A black-and-white, horizontal print depicts multiple Roman-style male figures on horseback. They hold weapons or brass musical instruments and process, somewhat chaotically, towards the viewer's right.

Women to Watch 2024: Daniela Rivera

Posted: May 8, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 showcases 28 contemporary artists who respond to our extraordinary times. We spoke with participating artists about their work and practice.
A light-skinned woman wearing a black shirt and red plaid skirt stands with her arms crossed, leaning against a table and smiling slightly.

Women to Watch 2024: Saskia Jordá

Posted: April 15, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 showcases 28 contemporary artists who respond to our extraordinary times. We spoke with participating artists about their work and practice.
A light-skinned woman is photographed from the chest up. She smiles warmly at the camera against a blue sky with white clouds and what appears to be paper cranes hung on ropes. She wears a black shirt and black-rimmed glasses.

Hung Liu: Making History

Posted: February 28, 2024
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Orin Zahra, NMWA associate curator, reflects on positioning the artist's profound and layered work alongside her photographic archives.
A black-and-white photograph of Hung Liu in her early twenties, wearing a collared shirt and short hair tied back. She sits in a wheat field and looks down at a stalk in her hands.

Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for NMWA

Posted: October 16, 2023
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Nine new works by book artists inaugurate the museum's new Learning Commons and celebrate spaces where women's creativity blooms.
An artist's book in the form of a rectangular box. The exterior of the box is painted to resemble the exterior of a building.

Tech-tonic Changes

Posted: October 12, 2023
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In the renovated building, NMWA guests will find welcoming digital experiences—including the new video series "In Focus: Artists at Work"—that spark curiosity and engagement.
A woman with medium-light skin tone, gray pigtails, large black glasses, a dark long-sleeve shirt and a navy apron stands proudly looking at the camera in a wood shop artist studio. Both her arms are bent, one at her waist and the other leaning on a chainsaw that rests on a large piece of wood on a table.

In Conversation with Katharina Cibulka: Community Voices

Posted: January 11, 2023
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
“SOLANGE” artist Katharina Cibulka discusses how she involves communities in the creation of her public works.
A building with a white mesh artwork covering its façade, featuring bright pink cross-stitched letters that say "As long as generations change but our struggles stay the same, I will be a feminist."

In Conversation with Katharina Cibulka: Under Construction

Posted: December 14, 2022
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
“SOLANGE” artist Katharina Cibulka discusses the thrills and challenges of installing her large-scale works on construction sites.
A building with a white mesh artwork covering its façade, featuring bright pink cross-stitched letters that say "As long as generations change but our struggles stay the same, I will be a feminist."