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#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...

#5WomenArtists in SoHo Women Artists
Posted: March 29, 2021
Category: #5Womenartists
Get to know five women artists—Harmony Hammond, Louise Bourgeois, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, and Sarah Charlesworth— who are depicted in SoHo Women Artists (1978), by May Stevens.
Life-sized, full-length portraits of 12 individuals form a frieze-like composition against a saturated lapis-blue background. Most of those portrayed are noted feminist artists and critics. Details from the artist's earlier paintings appear above and to t

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay’s #5WomenArtists
Posted: March 24, 2021
Category: #5Womenartists
NMWA founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922–2021) was a visionary collector of great art by women. Get to know five of her favorite modern and contemporary artists from the museum’s collection.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay leans against a railing with a slight smile. She is a light-skinned, older woman with short, gray hair, and she wears a collared white shirt and black cardigan. Ornate chandeliers can be seen behind her.

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay’s #5WomenArtists
Posted: March 17, 2021
Category: #5Womenartists
NMWA founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (1922–2021) was a visionary collector of great art by women. Get to know five of her favorite historical artists from the museum’s collection.
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay leans against a railing with a slight smile. She is a light-skinned, older woman with short, gray hair, and she wears a collared white shirt and black cardigan. Ornate chandeliers can be seen behind her.

#5WomenArtists 2020: That’s a Wrap!
Posted: April 29, 2020
Category: #5Womenartists
In March, NMWA’s #5WomenArtists social media campaign launched for a fifth year of raising awareness about women artists, garnering more than 4,092 Instagram posts and 9,568 tweets.

5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Mickalene Thomas
Posted: March 30, 2020
Category: #5Womenartists
Artist Mickalene Thomas's vibrant works have established a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, race, and power, while centering queer identity.
An enamel portrait painting of a woman made with encrusted black rhinestones glued to shiny pink acrylic background.