Across time and place, artists have come together to experiment, collaborate, and co-create. Impress your friends with five fast facts about some of the contemporary collectives represented in NMWA’s collection.
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Get to know five women artists—Harmony Hammond, Louise Bourgeois, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, and Sarah Charlesworth— who are depicted in SoHo Women Artists (1978), by May Stevens.
![Life-sized, full-length portraits of 12 individuals form a frieze-like composition against a saturated lapis-blue background. Most of those portrayed are noted feminist artists and critics. Details from the artist's earlier paintings appear above and to t](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1995.98_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artists May Stevens and Faith Ringgold highlight other prominent women artists through paintings currently on display in the museum’s third-floor galleries. Stevens and Ringgold chose their subjects for their impact...
![A colorful quilt depicts the same woman across its upper register five times: she has medium-dark skin tone and dances, bare-breasted and wearing a skirt with bananas hanging from her waist as well as a set of yellow necklaces. Below, medium-dark skinned and light-skinned men and women interact and play brass instruments. The quilt’s background features patterns in red, green, and yellow, and a border in shades of orange, blue, and black surrounds the work.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2016.63_13203-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Learn more about artist May Stevens, whose work SoHo Women Artists (1978) is featured in the NMWA collection.
![Life-sized, full-length portraits of 12 individuals form a frieze-like composition against a saturated lapis-blue background. Most of those portrayed are noted feminist artists and critics. Details from the artist's earlier paintings appear above and to t](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1995.98_transp-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)