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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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Not So Itsy Bitsy: Louise Bourgeois
Posted: July 3, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
Bronze sculpture of a spider on a white platform against a magenta background.

Color Blocking & Blending: Polly Apfelbaum’s Prints
Posted: June 26, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Polly Apfelbaum (b. 1955) is best known for her large-scale installations and “fallen paintings,” compositions of dyed synthetic fabrics that she places directly on the floor.
Twelve vertical columns, each a different color, of repeating flower, pinwheel, and starburst shapes on a white background.

Who Did Simone de Beauvoir Inspire?
Posted: June 21, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove. Museum...

Can Art Rouse the Spirit? Experience “Revival” this Summer!
Posted: June 15, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On June 23, NMWA’s second floor will come alive with brilliant contemporary sculpture and photo-based art by 16 women artists in the summer exhibition Revival. The show explores the featured artists’ representations...
Three photographs join to show a woman lying on a bed on her back. Turning her head to look at the viewer, she wears airy light clothing and a heavy, wide gold belt and her long hair falls to the floor. A metallic surface covers everything - the walls, furniture and the woman.

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Write?
Posted: June 6, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove. Museum...

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Read?
Posted: May 24, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove....

What #BeauvoirSays to NMWA
Posted: May 15, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Visitors ask me why the National Museum of Women in the Arts has a dedicated installation to honor Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir was not an artist, not a patron, and...

Artist Friendships: Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo
Posted: May 13, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Inspired by the special exhibition New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin, we are celebrating famous artist friendships. Did you know that Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) and Remedios...
Surrealist painting shaped like an animal skin dominated by a foreboding human-like shape hovering over narrative scenes of animals, human hybrids, and reverse-handwritten Celtic references. At the center, a bright blue circle containing a chimeric figure sits atop a seated camel.

Artist Friendships: Loïs Mailou Jones and Céline Tabary
Posted: May 8, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Inspired by the special exhibition New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin, we are celebrating famous artist friendships, like the one between Loïs Mailou Jones and Céline...
Beneath a soft blue sky, a picturesque village nestles in a valley between a river in the extreme foreground and verdant mountains. Combining loose and discrete brushstrokes with a palette of greens and golds, the painting recalls Paul Cézanne’s late 19th-century landscapes.

Artist Friendships: Lola Álvarez Bravo and Frida Kahlo
Posted: May 2, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Inspired by the special exhibition New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin, we are celebrating famous artist friendships. Did you know that Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993) and...
Black-and-white photograph of a woman wearing a dark skirt and light blouse holding a child. The woman faces back and her dark braid reaches past her waist. The dark-haired child stares at the camera and wears a white embroidered dress. Other figures are slightly visible beyond.