Women To Watch

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Women to Watch 2020: Rachel Farbiarz

Posted: December 9, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Artist Rachel Farbiarz talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
A long horizontal rectangle with small numerous figures and images collaged on the surface. Black and white figures in soldier’s uniforms stand and lay down, along with yellow and red banners, flags, and garlands.

Women to Watch 2020: Sa’dia Rehman

Posted: December 2, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Artist Sa'dia Rehman talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
Five panels of paper covered in gray charcoal in which there is a cut stencil of an image of a group of faceless people. The panels have portions of paper that flap and fold.

Women to Watch 2020: Julia Goodman

Posted: November 30, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Artist Julia Goodman talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
An oblique view of two side-by-side sheets made of pulp, one black and one pale pink. They both have raised surface patterns in the shapes of moon phases. Red paint on the back of the sheets reflects a sliver of color on the walls.

Women to Watch 2020: Angela Glajcar

Posted: November 25, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Learn about German artist Angela Glajcar's process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
Panels of white paper hung together to look like a long rectangular box suspended from the ceiling a few feet off the ground. Roughly torn holes in the middle of the sheets create a tunnel-like space.

Women to Watch 2020: Mira Burack

Posted: November 18, 2020
Category: Women To Watch
Artist Mira Burack talks about her process and work, which is featured in Paper Routes, the latest installment of NMWA's Women to Watch exhibition series.
A light-skinned woman with long brown hair smiles happily at the camera. She wears a black t-shirt.

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.