NMWA’s new collection installation features thematic galleries such as “Seeing Red,” which explores artists’ rosy, bold, and fiery uses of the color red.

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.

Through collaborating with a research team from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), NMWA gained vivid new insight into beloved works by Washington, D.C., artistic icon Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978).

The New York Times profiles Laurie Simmons; Zadie Smith profiles Deana Lawson; Alison Saar: Topsy Turvy is on view at LA Louver; and more.

Learn more about Alma Woodsey Thomas and her work Orion (1973), which is featured in the current NMWA exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today.

Did you know that even though women make up 51% of visual artists today, in the U.S. only 5% of work on museum walls is by women? It is no...

Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...

NMWA is proud to have two works by Alma Thomas. The mesmerizing paintings—created when the artists was nearly eighty years old—have been visitor and staff favorites.