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.

Motifs in Memories: Symbols in Hung Liu’s Art

Posted: July 6, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu (b. 1948) employs traditional Chinese motifs in her works on view in the special exhibition Hung Liu In Print, layering and superimposing them upon images...
Amid varied motifs that appear collaged or painted on an orange, coral, and peach background, a pair of large black, white, and tan birds perch on a flowering branch, which scatters petals. To the right, a seated, light-skinned woman with Asian features wears an elegant tunic.

5 Questions with Paula Castillo

Posted: July 6, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition showcases contemporary artists working...

5 Questions with Rana Begum

Posted: July 2, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition showcases contemporary artists working...

5 Questions with Cheryl Eve Acosta

Posted: June 29, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition showcases contemporary artists working...

Meddling with Metal: “Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018”

Posted: June 28, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch series, Heavy Metal showcases the ways that women artists have creatively carried this medium into the contemporary era, and how their works...

On View: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Posted: June 13, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Learn about works by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva as part of the "Month of Portugal in the United States" (June 2018).
A light-skinned adult woman in a gray dress with medium-length, wavy, brown hair is seen from behind, standing and facing a large, abstract painting. The painting depicts blurry, layered rectangles and squares in shades of gray, taupe, and black, layered and appearing to recede.

Women House: Beginnings

Posted: May 27, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Questions about a woman’s “place” resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas about the house as a feminine space persist. Global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the home through...

Women House: Construction as Self-Construction

Posted: May 26, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Questions about a woman’s “place” resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas about the house as a feminine space persist. Global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the...

Women House: Marks

Posted: May 26, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Questions about a woman’s “place” resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas about the house as a feminine space persist. Global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the...

Women House: Home is Where it Hurts

Posted: May 21, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Questions about a woman’s “place” resonate in our culture, and conventional ideas about the house as a feminine space persist. Global artists in Women House recast conventional ideas about the...