Hit the Books with NMWA: Women, Arts, and Social Change
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December 7, 2020
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Library And Research Center
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion this month, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: books...

In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: fiction.

Hit the Books with NMWA: Young Adult Fiction
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October 26, 2020
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Library And Research Center
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: young...

Julie Chen creates elaborate books that ask readers to do more than simply turn pages. NMWA's new exhibition presents more than a dozen captivating works from the artist's 33-year career.

In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. This week: nonfiction.

Opposites Attract: Linda Nochlin and Joan Mitchell
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September 28, 2020
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Library And Research Center
The close friendship between art historian, critic, and curator Linda Nochlin and painter Joan Mitchell may have thrived in part because Nochlin’s analytic ice proved a valuable counterpoint to Mitchell’s...

Hit the Books with NMWA: Graphic Novels
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August 26, 2020
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Library And Research Center
In advance of NMWA's inaugural book club discussion in December, check out this series of genre-based reading lists inspired by the museum's mission to champion women artists. First up: graphic...

Much of the way historians study art today can be traced to the contributions of Linda Nochlin, a scholar, critic, and curator who, beginning in the 1960s, tore through traditional...

Women Artists of the DMV: Maria Verónica San Martín’s “In Their Memory”
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January 23, 2020
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Library And Research Center
Maria Verónica San Martín's work functions as a tactile form of resistance—it critically examines power structures and the sanitization of historical atrocities.

Women Artists of the DMV: Malaka Gharib’s “I Was Their American Dream”
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November 27, 2019
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Library And Research Center
Malaka Gharib's graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream, chronicles her multicultural upbringing as the daughter of a Filipino Catholic mother and an Egyptian Muslim father.
