Salon Style: French Portraits from the Collection examines portraiture by women artists of 18th-century France, who struggled past barriers of training, public opinion, and political turmoil to attain professional success.
![Oval portrait of a young woman with light skin gazes out at the viewer with her dark tousled curls framing her face and shoulders.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2008.77-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
On January 27, as part of the museum’s Women, Arts, and Social Change initiative, artist Gabriel Ann Maher and Alice Rawsthorn continue the discussion surrounding the question “Can design be...
![Three light skinned women sit in an auditorium. The woman in the center looks at the stage, the two women on either side of her look down at their programs.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SM1_9317-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today, now on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, draws attention to influential women artists and designers...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-3-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-4-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-5-700x330.jpg)
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
![View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Pathmakers-Exhibition_19_3411-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-6-700x330.jpg)
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