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.

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...

Women House: Femme Maisons

Posted: May 17, 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: A Doll’s House

Posted: May 14, 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...
Arrangement of nine small, felt houses on a white table. Each house is a different, vibrant color and represents a different style of architecture spanning time and cultures—including a hut, a yurt, a cottage, art deco, postmodern architecture, and more.

Women House: A Room of One’s Own

Posted: May 11, 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: Mobile Homes

Posted: April 29, 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: Desperate Housewives

Posted: April 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...

Veils of Color: Hung Liu

Posted: April 17, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Although Hung Liu (b. 1948, Changchun, China) works in a variety of mediums, her portraits are unified by a unique style characterized by richly colored veils of drip marks—an effect...
Two smiling Chinese girls with light skin and black hair painted on a collage of Chinese writing, small red envelopes, a red bird and bug, and blue paint drippings. The older girl, seen waist up, wears her hair in two braids and carries the younger girl in crimson clothes on her back.

Nameless but Not Forgotten: Hung Liu’s Portraits

Posted: February 15, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Hung Liu In Print, NMWA’s newest exhibition, features works by Chinese artist Hung Liu (b. 1948) that pay homage to the forgotten individuals who influence history.

Artist Spotlight: Sylvia Snowden

Posted: January 21, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
For more than five decades, Sylvia Snowden (b. 1942, Raleigh, North Carolina) has created vibrantly abstract works. Her palette ranges from dark and earthy to bright and artificial, and she...
A medium-skinned woman with bright white hair stands in front of a colorful abstract painting speaking to a crowd of visitors.

Wonderful Words: Exploring Abstraction through Poetry

Posted: January 19, 2018
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On Saturday, December 9, D.C.-based poet Danielle Badra led Firsthand Experience: Responsive Poetry at the museum. The day started with an exquisite corpse group activity: Using artworks as prompts, each...
An installation view of several abstract artworks hung on a gallery wall.