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...

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...

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...

Some of the most recent works in NMWA’s The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back are from the Girls’s 2005 showing at the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art fair that has taken...

NMWA’s current exhibition, Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind, features one of Julia Jacquette’s recent works, White Square (2004).

Elaine (Fried) de Kooning (1918–89), primarily known for her Abstract Expressionist portrait paintings, was also an influential art teacher at institutions including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Parsons School of Design,...

Inspired by popular culture and, to a lesser extent, feminism, Polly Apfelbaum compels viewers to think about the pleasure of the aesthetic experience. A contemporary printmaker and mixed-media artist, Apfelbaum is...

One of the artists featured in Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection is Gertrude Käsebier (1852—1934), (pronounced “KAY-zerr-beer”), one of the most influential photographers of the early...

Karen Halverson (American, b. 1941) creates large format color landscape photographs. She spent several decades documenting the American West, traveling throughout the country capturing the intersection of the natural and...