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5 Fast Facts: Female Figures
Posted: July 9, 2026
Category: Lalla Essaydi
Impress your friends with five fast facts about NMWA collection artists who celebrate the power, beauty, and complexity of the female body.
In front of a stormy ocean, a woman with light skin and blonde, wind-blown hair stands with head turned in profile and eyes closed.

5 Fast Facts: Lalla Essaydi
Posted: May 26, 2022
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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

Returning the Gaze: Lalla Essaydi
Posted: July 25, 2017
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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

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.

Deconstructing Orientalism in “She Who Tells a Story”
Posted: May 29, 2016
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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".

She Who Tells a Story: Lalla Essaydi
Posted: May 9, 2016
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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".

Opening Tomorrow—“She Who Tells a Story”
Posted: April 7, 2016
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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".

Art Fix Friday: October 9, 2015
Posted: October 9, 2015
Category: Lalla Essaydi
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.