Happy birthday to Howardena Pindell, who was born on this day in 1943! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artist, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
![An older woman with medium-dark skin tone smiles slightly while standing in front of an abstract painting. She wears a colorful scarf atop a light-blue corduroy jacket.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Howardena-Pindell_21108-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
![An installation photograph of a two artworks hanging next to each other on a white wall. The artwork on the right is a large round-shaped abstract form that has an organic quality. It is white, with speckles, and has a rough texture to it, evoking the texture of sand.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Magnetic-Fields-Exhibition_07_22076-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)