Allons-y! Exploring Francophone Sculpture in NMWA’s Collection
Posted: May 6, 2019
Category: Women Sculptors
Visitors from the Young Women’s Francophone Meetup Group explored the collection galleries to learn more about Francophone women artists while practicing their French. The group found common threads among three...
The Contour of an Artist: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Beginnings
Posted: May 1, 2019
Category: Women Sculptors
For Ursula von Rydingsvard, sculpture is personal—a way to heal and process her innermost feelings. But it is also a way to connect to the outside world, to engage people...
As part of NMWA’s #5WomenArtists campaign, impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Laure Tixier). Tixier’s Plaid Houses (Maquettes) (2005–11), currently on view in NMWA’s collection galleries, explore a range of architectural styles in...
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Camille Claudel, whose work is part of NMWA’s collection.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Louise Bourgeois, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
Explore the progression between two works in NMWA's collection: Louise Nevelson's White Column (from Dawn's Wedding Feast) (1959) to Anne Truitt's Summer Dryad (1971).
Impress your friends with five fast facts about sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar, whose work is on view in Alison Saar In Print through October 2, 2016.
While visiting family in San Francisco, I visited some of the city’s public artworks by Ruth Asawa, one of the artists featured in NMWA’s exhibition Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...