Uncanny

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Uncanny: Unsafe Spaces
Posted: June 9, 2025
Category: Uncanny
NMWA’s special exhibition gives form to women artists’ powerful expressions of existential unease. In this series, Associate Curator Orin Zahra dives deep into the exhibition’s themes and artworks.
A woman with medium-dark skin tone in historical attire with a large striped gown poses indoors. She wears a powdered wig, and a small white dog sits by her side. A painted background depicts a pastoral scene with a vignette of a violent assault.

Uncanny: Surreal Imaginings
Posted: February 28, 2025
Category: Uncanny
NMWA’s newest exhibition gives form to women artists’ powerful expressions of existential unease. In this series, Associate Curator Orin Zahra dives deep into the exhibition’s themes and artworks.
A black-and-white artwork features a dark-skinned woman's duplicated head, one facing the viewer straight on and the other upside down. The faces are stylized and abstract, with a textured appearance, set against a plain white background.