Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age: Illuminating the Natural World
Posted: November 13, 2019
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
The lives and works of women artists of the Dutch Golden Age reveal connections between artists, patrons, and the subject matter of the natural world. The Dutch took pleasure in...
![A still life painting featuring an asymmetrical arrangement of flowers; the central section features pink, orange, yellow, and blue flowers and is dramatically highlighted compared to the background and outer edge of arrangement.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1986.282-GAP-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.png)
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.
![A large cedar and paint sculpture installed against a white wall.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OCEAN-VOICES-1-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1.jpg)