Visualizing Extinction in Judy Chicago’s “The End”
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December 9, 2019
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Nmwa Exhibitions
As artists contend with the urgency of climate change, some portray nature’s stunning grandeur to inspire viewers into protecting the planet; others show human-caused damage that provokes shock and anguish....
Women Artists of the DMV: Malaka Gharib’s “I Was Their American Dream”
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November 27, 2019
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Nmwa Exhibitions
Malaka Gharib's graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, chronicles her multicultural upbringing as the daughter of a Filipino Catholic mother and an Egyptian Muslim father.
In the “Mortality” section of The End, Judy Chicago explores her own death across 20 black glass panels. The figure in each work has the artist’s shock of bright curls...
Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age: Illuminating the Natural World
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November 13, 2019
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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...
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...
Power in My Hand: Five Women Artists in Conversation with Emily Dickinson
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October 23, 2019
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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...
Landscape of Change: Janaina Tschäpe’s “100 Little Deaths”
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October 15, 2019
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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...
Opening this Week: Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
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October 8, 2019
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Nmwa Exhibitions
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...
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...
