In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab...
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-5-700x330.jpg)
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World...
![A couple sitting in a burned-out car in wedding finery, they look directly at the camera with neutral or stricken expressions.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gohar-Dashti-Todays-life-and-War-2008-5-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab...
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-6-700x330.jpg)
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World...
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-7-700x330.jpg)
Large-scale photographs by contemporary women artists illuminate their perspectives and challenge stereotypes in She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, on view April 8–July...
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-8-700x330.jpg)
Salon Style: French Portraits from the Collection presents portraiture by 18th-century French women artists, who struggled past a lack of training, negative opinion, and political turmoil to attain professional success.
![A portrait of a light-skinned woman with powdered brown hair tucked under a white wrap with a golden border. She is wearing a blue jacket with a red sash tied around her waist.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1986.346_229-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about designer Anni Albers (1899–1994), whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February...
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about designer Toshiko Takaezu, whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February 28,...
![A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned, dark-haired, Asian adult woman smiling while wearing a smock in her studio. In the foreground are two of her large sculptures; she has her hand on one of them.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PR-PERMISSION_Toshiko-Takaezu-1-1-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Agnes Martin whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February 28, 2016.
![Painting with nine by twenty-six grids formed by pencil on a textured, gray background. Tiny silver nail heads hug the top and bottom of each section. Exact in design, the effect is one of imperfection as the lines are not perfectly straight and the nails do not totally line up.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1986.212-e1608314214178-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about designer Eva Zeisel (1906–2011), whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February...
![Round shapes with dimples in the middle that resemble the belly button from the human body in candy-colored glazes that are stacked in four vertical rows of to create S-shaped lines.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/eva_zeisel_belly_button_5x7_photo_by_brent_brolin-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)