Impress your friends with five fast facts about Lalla Essaydi and her series Bullets and Bullets Revisited. Bullets Revisited #3 (2012) is part of NMWA’s collection.
![A woman lying on her back gazes confidently out at viewer adorned and surrounded by polished bullet casings](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2016.57a-c-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about artist Lalla Essaydi, whose work is featured in the current NMWA exhibition Revival.
![A woman lying on her back gazes confidently out at viewer adorned and surrounded by polished bullet casings](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2016.57a-c-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Can Art Rouse the Spirit? Experience “Revival” this Summer!
Posted: June 15, 2017
Category: Lalla Essaydi
On June 23, NMWA’s second floor will come alive with brilliant contemporary sculpture and photo-based art by 16 women artists in the summer exhibition Revival. The show explores the featured artists’ representations...
![Three photographs join to show a woman lying on a bed on her back. Turning her head to look at the viewer, she wears airy light clothing and a heavy, wide gold belt and her long hair falls to the floor. A metallic surface covers everything - the walls, furniture and the woman.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2016.57a-c_13090-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Deconstructing Orientalism, Constructing Identities, and New Documentary.
![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".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World...
![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".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-4-700x330.jpg)
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".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-8-700x330.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)