Across time and place, artists have come together to experiment, collaborate, and co-create. Impress your friends with five fast facts about some of the contemporary collectives represented in NMWA’s collection.
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5 Fast Facts about #5WomenArtists Changing the World: Guerrilla Girls
Posted: March 4, 2020
Category: Guerrilla Girls
Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls, a collective of anonymous feminist activist artists, have brought widespread attention to the issues of sexism and racism in the art world.
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Explore the themes featured in NMWA's most recent collection installation with NMWA director Susan Fisher Sterling.
![Eight diverse women museum visitors are scattered throughout the NMWA collection galleries browsing the art on the walls.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/KAP_NMWA_2019_01_19_142-1-copy-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
![A colorful portrait of a lush arrangement of flowers including poppies, peonies, roses, carnations, and more. Some flowers have small water drpolets on them and a butterfly and bee are perched on others. The image is a still life photograph, though it looks like a painting.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2011.12_from-artist-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Connecting the Threads: Joan Mitchell and Rodarte
Posted: January 23, 2019
Category: Guerrilla Girls
![A vertical, abstraction features broadly painted strokes of pale gray, lavender, and cobalt in the upper two-thirds of the canvas. The colors continue in the lower third, along with touches of green, black, and other hues, but the expressive brushwork becomes denser and chaotic.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1986.220-1-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
![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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thf46715_nmwa41-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)