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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Artist Spotlight: Valeska Soares–More than the Eye Can See

Posted: January 27, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Brazilian sculptor and installation artist Valeska Soares investigates multi-sensory approaches and how memory and personality influence the viewers’ perception of art. Soares has two artworks in P(art)ners: Gifts from Heather...
A long sculpture lying on a pedestal. The sculpture is made from beeswax and has an organic shape, resembling two open mouths on opposite sites, connected through a yellow line.

Artist Spotlight: Catherine Yass Lights Things Up

Posted: January 11, 2011
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Catherine Yass explores the power of architecture to affect psychological states. By experimenting with color processing, Yass imbues her images of commonplace sites with an otherworldly formal beauty. P(art)ners: Gifts...
A photograph of the interior of a bathroom showing several urinals. The photograph is tinted in green.

Loïs Mailou Jones: The Designer

Posted: December 22, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Loïs Mailou Jones’s long career had many chapters. One that is less-known is her career as a designer. In their 2000 study of women in design Pat Kirkham and Lynne...
Intervior view of the museum galleries features a vibrant blue wall with the text 'Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color'. Multiple artworks are displayed in the background.

Loïs Mailou Jones & the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Posted: November 9, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Several of the photographs included in Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color and many of the photographs in the exhibition catalog were selected from the personal papers of...
Semi-abstract composition in shades of blue, orange, yellow, green, grey, white and burgundy. In the center, an orange oval with a black and white eye in the center, supported by symmetrical strips of semi-circles and diamonds. Vertical blocks of color reach upwards on both sides.

Loïs Mailou Jones & Howard University

Posted: November 2, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On display at NMWA until January 9, 2011, Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is the first major retrospective spanning the artist’s career of more than 75 years.
Beneath a soft blue sky, a picturesque village nestles in a valley between a river in the extreme foreground and verdant mountains. Combining loose and discrete brushstrokes with a palette of greens and golds, the painting recalls Paul Cézanne’s late 19th-century landscapes.

Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

Posted: October 6, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, a dynamic exhibition of more than 70 paintings, drawings, and textile designs, spans the artist’s career from the late Harlem Renaissance to...
Beneath a soft blue sky, a picturesque village nestles in a valley between a river in the extreme foreground and verdant mountains. Combining loose and discrete brushstrokes with a palette of greens and golds, the painting recalls Paul Cézanne’s late 19th-century landscapes.

Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut

Posted: September 8, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut features twenty-two works by the artist carefully crafted from her dreams, memories, and love for music and poetry.
A brown, tropical fruit with a large segment of skin removed to reveal small, round pages of sheet music inside instead of fruit flesh. The book rests on a square woodblock with “libra—seme” printed in the bottom-right corner.

SOLO Spotlight: Jean Shin

Posted: August 30, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Jean Shin is a master of rendering small objects on a monumental scale. The everyday becomes epic. Her works in The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression, on view through...
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

SOLO Spotlight: Dotty Attie

Posted: August 12, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Dotty Attie’s work, mannered, realist, delicate, is all about violence. Masterpieces copied, cut, contextualized anew. Images of women manipulated to accentuate their vulnerability to the powerful male and his gaze....
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

Woman to Watch: Jennifer Levonian

Posted: July 29, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Third in our summer series of Women to Watch artist spotlights, Jennifer Levonian talks about how she made her work Take Your Picture with a Puma. Levonian's work was recently...
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.