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National Museum of Women in the Arts

Leila Khoury

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Artist Spotlight: Leila Khoury

Posted: July 25, 2018
Category: Leila Khoury
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition showcases contemporary artists working...

Casting, Construction, and Catharsis: Metalwork Processes

Posted: July 17, 2018
Category: Leila Khoury
Metalwork has been considered a masculine practice due to the laborious, physical processes involved in manipulating metal. Despite this stereotype, women have long been artists and manufacturers in this dynamic...

Meddling with Metal: “Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018”

Posted: June 28, 2018
Category: Leila Khoury
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch series, Heavy Metal showcases the ways that women artists have creatively carried this medium into the contemporary era, and how their works...