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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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5 Fast Facts: Susan Goethel Campbell
Posted: March 21, 2025
Category: #5Womenartists
In celebration of NMWA’s 2025 #5WomenArtists campaign, we’re highlighting NMWA collection artists whose work addresses environmental justice and sustainability.
A closed view of Susan Goethel Campbell's artists' book "RIM," which resembles a mental block.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Disability Activism
Posted: September 4, 2024
Category: #5Womenartists
Learn about #5WomenArtists whose Wikipedia pages were created or enhanced during this year's edit-a-thon, which focused on disability activism.
A miniature watercolor painting features a light-skinned woman with underdeveloped arms wearing a white dress with a blue ribbon tied around the bodice. Her curly brown hair is worn up in a bow. She looks at the viewer with a neutral expression.

Disability and Dress: An Interview with Natalie Wright
Posted: July 26, 2024
Category: #5Womenartists
July is Disability Pride Month. As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, we spoke with art historians and disability advocates who are working at this intersection.
A black-and-white photo of a woman in a wheelchair wearing stylish 1970s dress.

An Art History of Pharmaceuticals: An Interview with Phillippa Pitts
Posted: July 23, 2024
Category: #5Womenartists
July is Disability Pride Month. As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, we spoke with art historians and disability advocates who are working at this intersection.
A 19th-century medial illustration shows a male doctor inflating his patient like a water balloon.

#5WomenArtists Art+: Television and Screenwriters
Posted: July 27, 2023
Category: #5Womenartists
We spoke with five television and screenwriters about their work, favorite writers, and why the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is important to them.
A large group of people diverse in age, race, and gender, hold picket signs and appear to be marching down a street. The signs say "Writer's Guild of America" on STRIKE!

#5WomenPoets on #5WomenArtists
Posted: April 27, 2023
Category: #5Womenartists
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we’re highlighting five contemporary poets inspired by artists whose works are in our collection.
An enamel portrait painting of a woman made with encrusted black rhinestones glued to shiny pink acrylic background.

5 Questions With Very Sad Lab
Posted: March 15, 2022
Category: #5Womenartists
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign will champion emerging and underrepresented artists. Get to know D.C.-based houseplant rehabilitation duo Very Sad Lab!
An installation view of a tiny gallery space shows a long wood desk and shelving set up against one wall, holding jars and pots of plant clippings with a flat screen TV mounted to the wall in the center. The back wall is painted green with white text on it: "The Incubator Resource Lab." More plants hang from the ceiling. The floor is concrete and painted dark grey.

5 Questions with Stephanie J. Williams
Posted: January 27, 2022
Category: #5Womenartists
Throughout 2022, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign will champion emerging and underrepresented artists. Get to know D.C.-based interdisciplinary artist Stephanie J. Williams!
In this screen still from a puppet stop motion animation, miniature sculptures made from wood, metal, and other materials are arranged on top of, and hang above, green turf, set against a pitch black background. The sculpture's shadows appear on the turf. The sculptures are made up of various circular designs.

Five Emerging Artists for #5WomenArtists: Micaela Cianci
Posted: December 10, 2021
Category: #5Womenartists
U.K.-based artist Micaela Cianci created an original illustration inspired by Leonora Carrington’s painting Crookhey Hall (1986), part of the museum's collection.
A black-and-white digital illustration features a lively, Surrealist scene on the grounds of an old English manor. Among trees and the grass, a brass band walks, a man in a formal suit runs crazily, animals and human-animals stands and interact, and a circus tent stands in the distance.

Five Emerging Artists for #5WomenArtists: Ambar Del Moral
Posted: September 29, 2021
Category: #5Womenartists
Artist Ambar Del Moral’s new T-shirt that pays homage to NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign drops on 10/1. It kicks off a line of #5WomenArtists T-shirts created by five emerging women artists...