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Women to Watch 2024: Arely Morales
Posted: August 6, 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 young woman with Brown skin tone and straight black hair sits in front of a large painting. She wears a black hoodie and jeans that are peppered with paint and thin-rimmed black glasses. She sits in a chair and smiles slightly at the camera.

Women to Watch 2024: Sophia Pompéry
Posted: August 1, 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 close-up portrait of a light-skinned woman with brown hair worn in a bun. She turns toward the camera from the side with a cheeky smile.

Women to Watch 2024: Marianna Dixon Williams
Posted: July 19, 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 person standing in a workshop, dressed in a black t-shirt, light green pants, brown boots, and a watch. They are holding tools and standing near a yellow structure with "Patsy McGee" written on it, and part of an unidentified yellow structure are visible in the background.

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.