Nmwa Exhibitions

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.

Sister Mary Corita on PBS!

Posted: April 17, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Kathryn A. Wat was recently interviewed by PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Wat described R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, NMWA’s current exhibition of Corita’s...
A white room with a wall in the foreground that has bold, red and orange text that reads ‘R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, March 9–July 15, 2012.’ In the background, bold and colorful prints with text are hang on a white wall.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Posted: April 10, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Woman Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Marguerite Gérard

Posted: April 3, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Angélique Mongez

Posted: March 26, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun

Posted: March 22, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun was one of the most celebrated painters of pre-Revolutionary Paris and is today the best-known female artist of her generation
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.

Royalists to Romantics: Spotlight on Marie Guilhelmine Benoist

Posted: March 13, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 77 works by 35 artists display the talents of French Revolution-era women artists. Their paintings are windows into their...
View of a gallery space with red walls. A golden mirror with plenty of ornaments is hanging to the left, large historical portraits of women are hanging to the right.

R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita is Far Out

Posted: March 9, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is getting groovy this spring with the opening of R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita. The exhibition features 65 never-before-exhibited prints created between...
A white room with a wall in the foreground that has bold, red and orange text that reads ‘R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita, March 9–July 15, 2012.’ In the background, bold and colorful prints with text are hang on a white wall.
Chakaia Booker’s creative process involves exploring and exploiting the full artistic potential of rubber tires. She carefully selects tires with easy-to-cut, worn-out treads in order to transform them into her...
Two large abstract sculptures made from tires rise from a center median in a city street. The sculptures are wavy columns.

Women’s History Month—and NMWA—after 25 Years

Posted: March 1, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
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.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit—No. 2”: On view now at NMWA!

Posted: February 16, 2012
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit” paintings were inspired by the flowers she saw around her summer home on Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Mountains.
A black-and-white photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe, seen from the shoulders up, her elbow propped on a car window and her chin leaning against her hand. She is a light-skinned, adult, older woman with dark hair pulled back in a neat bun.