Washington, D.C., and its surroundings have long been home to a rich community of artists of color, including those born and raised here and others who built connections to the...
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Power in My Hand: Five Women Artists in Conversation with Emily Dickinson
Posted: October 23, 2019
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Five works in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s exhibition Power in My Hand: Women Poets, Women Artists, and Social Change testify to the enduring legacy of Emily...
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Landscape of Change: Janaina Tschäpe’s “100 Little Deaths”
Posted: October 15, 2019
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Janaina Tschäpe began her "100 Little Deaths" series in 1996 as an exploration of landscape, transmutation, and death. Each self-portrait depicts the artist sprawled face down in different environments around...
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Opening this Week: Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
Posted: October 8, 2019
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
![Still life painting features a reddish ceramic colander with several types of fish. In the foreground, a cat stands alert next to shrimp and oyster shells on a gleaming pewter dish.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1986.263_Art-Camera-6-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
In Judy Chicago's newest body of work, she draws on Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief. She represents these stages of grief and simultaneously reckons with her own...
![A painted sign with black text on a beige background. The text reads "Stages of Dying."](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judy-Chicago-Stages-of-Dying-1-of-6-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Live Dangerously reveals the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world. Twelve groundbreaking photographers use humor, drama, ambiguity, and innovative storytelling to illuminate...
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The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, the newest body of work by iconic feminist artist Judy Chicago, continues the artist’s practice of tackling taboo subjects. In these works,...
![The words 'The End' in bold, uppercase print is shown in an iridescent box of pinks and greens with a solid black border. 'A meditation' sits atop of the box in cursive writing and 'on Death and Extinction' sits below in the same lettering.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Judy-Chicago-Title-Panel-The-End-A-Meditation-on-Death-and-Extinction-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Art and Social Messaging in More is More: Multiples
Posted: July 31, 2019
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Many of the artists whose work is on view in More is More: Multiples have challenged stereotypical notions of womanhood since the 1970s, and their messages are still relevant today.
![Two sides of a compact mirror, each featuring a photographic portrait of a black woman.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Thomas-mirror-combined-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)
Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling presents the artist’s monumental cedar wood sculptures alongside newer works for the first time.
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Ursula von Rydingsvard has created large-scale sculptures that can be visited in public parks, plazas, and civic buildings across the country. Curious to discover more of her work? Here are...
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