Women To Watch

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.

5 Questions with Rana Begum

Posted: July 2, 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 Cheryl Eve Acosta

Posted: June 29, 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...

Meddling with Metal: “Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018”

Posted: June 28, 2018
Category: Women To Watch
The fifth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch series, Heavy Metal showcases the ways that women artists have creatively carried this medium into the contemporary era, and how their works...

Spotlight: Rachel Sussman

Posted: August 31, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the relationship...
View of a gallery space. In big letters green , the text on the wall reads "Women to Watch: Organic Matters, 2015."

Spotlight: Jiha Moon

Posted: August 24, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
Jiha Moon is known for her blend of traditional materials and pop culture iconography. Like a “cartographer of cultures,” Moon is interested in creating images that can be read differently...
A round, ceramic vessel glazed unevenly in glossy celadon has a bulging body incised with abstract shapes. Matte turquoise glaze dribbling down from the rim obscures portions of the pale green and fully coats one of two peach-shaped orbs projecting from either side of the neck.

5 Questions with Mary Tsiongas

Posted: August 17, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
View of a gallery space. In big letters green , the text on the wall reads "Women to Watch: Organic Matters, 2015."

5 Questions with Lara Shipley

Posted: August 10, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
View of a gallery space. In big letters green , the text on the wall reads "Women to Watch: Organic Matters, 2015."

5 Questions with Françoise Pétrovitch

Posted: August 3, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The exhibition’s artists redefine the...
View of a gallery space. In big letters green , the text on the wall reads "Women to Watch: Organic Matters, 2015."

Victorian Decadence & Visual Decay

Posted: July 22, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
Petah Coyne and Polly Morgan are influenced by the art of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. Both artists bring forth otherworldly creations through extremely labor and time intensive processes. The...
Myriad layers of melted pink and white wax encrust and obscure the metal armature for this abstract sculpture, which hangs from satin-wrapped chains. Its color and shape, as well as the bumpy, lacy texture, evoke a frilly tutu, lavishly frosted wedding cake, or coral accretions.

5 Questions with Andrea Lira

Posted: July 20, 2015
Category: Women To Watch
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.