Learn about the work of Suzanne Coley, a featured artist in the online exhibition DMV Color and one of few African American full-time book artists working today.
![A book made from colorful print fabrics collaged and stitched together is laid flat and open to a spread that features an stencil cut image of a woman's face overlaid with an intricate flower positioned on her hair.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/All-I-Have-_12_-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Women Artists of the DMV: Maria Verónica San Martín’s “In Their Memory”
Posted: January 23, 2020
Category: Dmv Color
Maria Verónica San Martín's work functions as a tactile form of resistance—it critically examines power structures and the sanitization of historical atrocities.
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Women Artists of the DMV: Malaka Gharib’s “I Was Their American Dream”
Posted: November 27, 2019
Category: Dmv Color
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.
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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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