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NMWA’s Nordic Cool
Posted: April 12, 2013
Category: Women In The Arts Magazine
In honor of A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony, on view through May 12, 2013, we’re researching other delightful, innovative, and interesting Danish women in the...
View of a gallery space. On a white wall, it says "A World Apart: Anna Ancher and the Skagen Art Colony."

Chakaia Booker: Evocative, Dynamic Works in the New York Avenue Sculpture Project
Posted: March 7, 2012
Category: Women In The Arts Magazine
Chakaia Booker’s creative process involves exploring and exploiting the full artistic potential of rubber tires. She carefully selects tires with easy-to-cut, worn-out treads in order to transform them into her...
Two large abstract sculptures made from tires rise from a center median in a city street. The sculptures are wavy columns.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit—No. 2”: On view now at NMWA!
Posted: February 16, 2012
Category: Women In The Arts Magazine
O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit” paintings were inspired by the flowers she saw around her summer home on Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Mountains.
A black-and-white photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe, seen from the shoulders up, her elbow propped on a car window and her chin leaning against her hand. She is a light-skinned, adult, older woman with dark hair pulled back in a neat bun.