What is natural? Porcelain grass lawns and anthropomorphic scooters may not be the first objects to come to mind, although they are likely to make a lasting impression. Visitors can...
![Detail photograph of ceramic sculpture made to look like a patch of lawn. Individual squares consisting of multiple upright blades of porcelain grass, glazed green, fit together to form a lush rectangular field of grass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DHolder_Monoculture01_8x12-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the female...
![Against a dark black and brown background, a light skinned woman in a red dress with wavy reddish-brown hair wears a white cloth and gold crown around her head. Her right hand clutches a palm while her left grazes a spiked breaking wheel. She stares straight at the viewer.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artemisia-Self-Portrait-as-Saint-Catherine-of-Alexandria-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)