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.
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Visions of the Orient Artist Spotlight: Elizabeth Keith

Posted: November 22, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Elizabeth Keith is one of four Western women artists featured in Visions of the Orient: Western Women Artists in Asia 1900–1940, on view at NMWA through January 15, 2012. Keith...
View of a gallery space. On a white wall, the text reads: "Visions of the Orient: Western Women Artists in Asia 1900–1940."

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Harbinger, Mediator, and Bridge Builder

Posted: September 29, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses her ancestry and her passion for Indigenous rights to create powerful images.
A horizontal canvas combines collaged paper, such as a scrap of a U.S. map, comic strip, and pictographs; cloth swatches; scrawled and dripped paint; and phrases like “It takes hard work to keep racism alive” and “Oh! Zone.” The work’s title appears in red paint right of center.

Fay Ku: Combining the Whimsical with the Unknown

Posted: September 19, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Fay Ku’s Sea Change, featured in NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, stands out among the many other lithographs for its striking subject matter...
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.

Nature and Continuity in Prints by Emmi Whitehorse

Posted: September 6, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Explore how Emmi Whitehorse's artworks illustrate a landscape over time and her relationship to nature.
Goldenrod yellow paint smudged across white paper in layers, creating different levels of opacity. Vertical red and black lines, and a few red and black shape outlines, mostly of tall ovals, are painted sporadically on the paper.

Statistics in The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Revealing the Hard Facts on Discrimination

Posted: August 31, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, on view at NMWA through October 2, immediately strikes viewers with overwhelming statistics and figures. The Girls have combined eye-grabbing graphics and startling numbers to...
Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."

Ynez Johnston's Lively and Evocative Compositions

Posted: August 24, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Ynez Johnston’s works throw viewers into a world that blends the ancient with the modern.
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.

Artist Spotlight: Ruth Asawa

Posted: August 9, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Ruth Asawa (b. January 24, 1926) had no ordinary childhood. During World War II, at the age of 16, Asawa and the rest of her family were taken from their...
A black-and-white photograph of Ruth Asawa holding one of her large, wire crochet sculptures, draped over her shoulder and in both hands. She is a light-skinned, Asian, adult woman with black hair and blunt bangs.

Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, Artist Spotlight: Gego

Posted: August 4, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Gego first worked at the Tamarind Institute, then located in Los Angeles, during a 1963 trip to the United Stateswith Leufert. She returned for a two-month Tamarind fellowship in November...
View of an exhibition space with white and lilac walls. There are several prints and lithographs hanging on the walls.

Tamarind Artist Spotlight: The Eclectic, Energetic Kiki Smith

Posted: August 1, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The career of Kiki Smith can best be described as eclectic. Born in 1954, her earliest and most constant exposure to art was through the work of her father, sculptor...
A deep auburn-colored octopus hovers above a larger, black spider with fuzzy legs, fangs, and blue eyes against a white background. There is a small white and yellow flower on the spider’s thorax and two red dots on each side of the flower.

Art Herstory

Posted: July 25, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Discrimination in the art world is not a new topic, and since the second wave of feminism, more focus has been placed on discrimination against women artists. (The second wave...
Reclining light skinned nude woman seen from behind wearing a gorilla mask on bright yellow background. Large black text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Smaller black and red text reads, "Less than 3% of artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 83% of the nudes are female."