Ingrid Mwangi (Mwangi Hutter)

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.

5 Fast Facts: Dream Teams and #5WomenArtists

Posted: March 1, 2023
Category: Ingrid Mwangi (Mwangi Hutter)
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.

Director’s Desk: Women Artists Address Migration

Posted: January 3, 2019
Category: Ingrid Mwangi (Mwangi Hutter)
At first glance, it might be difficult to identify common threads in works by Ingrid Mwangi, Jami Porter Lara, and Betsabeé Romero. Each artist uses vastly different materials to address...

Passionate Pathmakers

Posted: December 29, 2015
Category: Ingrid Mwangi (Mwangi Hutter)
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, and...
View of a gallery space. On a black wall, it says " Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today" in big, white letters, Two pendant lights are hanging from the ceiling to the left.

Artist Spotlight: Ingrid Mwangi—H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-e-d Identity

Posted: February 25, 2011
Category: Ingrid Mwangi (Mwangi Hutter)
Learn about performance and video artist Ingrid Mwangi's (Mwangi Hutter) exploration of hyphenated identity.
Four photographs, read horizontally from left to right, portray close-ups details of the artist’s body: her face, obscured by hands in prayer; a scarred back; hands pressed into upper thighs, and toes suspended over soil. With each picture, her skin appears increasingly dark.