Art Is For Everyone. Help Make Access Possible.

Keep art accessible and women artists visible. Make your gift by June 30 and help us finish our fiscal year strong.    

Donate Now
A woman with light colored skin, wearing a black top and white pants, talks to a group of people in a gallery room. She stands in front of a large, painted portrait of a woman in a high-collared red dress.
NMWA Tickets
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Joan Mitchell

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.
Back to all blog posts

A Housewife’s Ballet: Kirsten Justesen on Domesticity and Art
Posted: April 30, 2016
Category: Joan Mitchell
Danish artist Kirsten Justesen’s oeuvre highlights her experience navigating her role as a woman and artist.
A photograph shows the nude artist sitting in a metal grocery cart. It is located on a paved road in a flat, empty landscape under a gray, misty sky. Her back to the viewer, the light-skinned, brunette woman holds her raised arms in a wide V-shape, suggesting joy or abandon.

Opening Tomorrow—“She Who Tells a Story”
Posted: April 7, 2016
Category: Joan Mitchell
Large-scale photographs by contemporary women artists illuminate their perspectives and challenge stereotypes in She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, on view April 8–July...
A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".

#Instameets @WomenInTheArts
Posted: March 2, 2016
Category: Joan Mitchell
In honor of International Women’s Day, NMWA will host an #EmptyNMWA instameet on Tuesday, March 8. An “instameet” is an opportunity for photographers to gather, meet, and snap pictures for...
Exterior color photo of the museum building with a blue sky and clouds.

Snowy Spectacle: NMWA’s Wintry Works
Posted: December 22, 2015
Category: Joan Mitchell
Explore two wintry works in NMWA's collection, Gabriele Münter’s Breakfast of the Birds (1934) and Joan Mitchell’s Sale Neige (1980), which encourage deep contemplation.
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.

Art Fix Friday: July 25, 2015
Posted: July 24, 2015
Category: Joan Mitchell
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.