In the second of a three-part interview, artist MISS CHELOVE speaks about the influences that inform her work, including her monumental mural now on view on NMWA's building exterior.
Learn about artists in Positive Fragmentation, including Julie Mehretu, Barbara Takenaga, and Ellen Gallagher, who use the act of deconstruction to explore concepts of time.
In the first of a three-part interview, artist MISS CHELOVE speaks about the motifs and themes in her new, monumental artwork now on view on NMWA's building exterior.
Positive Fragmentation: Wangechi Mutu on the Black Body
Posted: March 23, 2022
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In the NMWA-organized exhibition Positive Fragmentation, Wangechi Mutu's collages of Black female hybrid figures illuminate inequities at the intersection of race and gender.
Several artists in Positive Fragmentation address the built spaces we inhabit. Learn about the works of Nicola López (b. 1975), Sarah Morris (b. 1967), and Swoon (b. 1977).
In the NMWA-organized exhibition Positive Fragmentation, Betye Saar and Wendy Red Star construct new meanings and iconographies through assemblage of repurposed imagery.
Learn about the work of Suzanne Coley, a featured artist in the online exhibition DMV Color and one of few African American full-time book artists working today.
Starting July 5, submit your favorite summer recipes to the online exhibition RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals. Learn about the project’s genesis from curator Melani N. Douglass.
Writer A’Lelia Bundles, who is the great-great-granddaughter of famed hair care entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, reflects on Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend.
Get to know National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney (b. 1957), who wrote a lyrical imagining of Sonya Clark’s creative inspirations for the Tatter, Bristle, and Mend exhibition catalogue.