Women To Watch

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Women to Watch 2020: Jen Aitken

Posted: November 9, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Canadian artist Jen Aitken talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
An orange geometric abstract sculpture with varied angles positioned against a corner on the floor. The sculpture has painted lines extending onto the walls.

Director’s Desk: The Power of Paper

Posted: November 2, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
In our newest exhibition Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020, now on view at NMWA, many of the featured artists explore paper’s long association with identity and advocacy, using their practices...
Dozens of pale, hollow, ghostly feet of different sizes made of translucent paper arrayed in pairs on a white background.

Women to Watch 2020: Dolores Furtado

Posted: October 8, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Argentinian artist Dolores Furtado talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
A close up color photograph of a light skinned woman who stares unsmiling at the camera. She has chin-length blonde ombre hair, dark eyebrows, and blue-grey eyes. The background of the photo is blurred.

Director’s Desk: Throwback Thursday—Women to Watch

Posted: June 11, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
More than 12 years ago, NMWA began the Women to Watch exhibition series as a way to identify and celebrate emerging and underrepresented women artists from across the country and...
A detail of contemporary paper art with a colorful painted base underneath thousands of cut alphabet letters in concentric designs.

5 Questions with Holly Laws

Posted: September 10, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees.

Artist Spotlight: Alejandra Prieto

Posted: September 7, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition showcases contemporary artists working...

5 Questions with Venetia Dale

Posted: September 4, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees.

5 Questions with Alice Hope

Posted: August 30, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees.

5 Questions with Petronella Eriksson

Posted: August 25, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees.

5 Questions with Susie Ganch

Posted: August 17, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, Heavy Metal, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees.