Name: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Address: 1250 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20005

What’s Inside

The fall 2019 issue of Women in the Arts features:

The newest body of work by celebrated feminist artist Judy Chicago, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction
Live Dangerously, which features contemporary photography
Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age, presenting artists who excelled in that era of unprecedented growth
Updates about the museum’s building assessment, plus more programs, news, and art on view

Landscape of Change: Janaina Tschäpe’s “100 Little Deaths”
Posted: Oct 15, 2019 in Artist Spotlight
Janaina Tschäpe began her “100 Little Deaths” series in 1996 as an exploration of landscape, transmutation, and death. Each self-portrait depicts the artist sprawled face down in different environments around the world, often with limbs akimbo.

Blog Category: Artist Spotlight
Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age: Illuminating the Natural World
Posted: Nov 13, 2019 in NMWA Exhibitions
The lives and works of women artists of the Dutch Golden Age reveal connections between artists, patrons, and the subject matter of the natural world. The Dutch took pleasure in the wonders of nature—from flowers to food—and this is evident in the profusion of still-life paintings executed during the era.

Blog Category: NMWA Exhibitions
Judy Chicago—The End: Stages of Dying
Posted: Sep 25, 2019 in NMWA Exhibitions
In Judy Chicago’s newest body of work, she draws on Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. She represents these stages of grief and simultaneously reckons with her own mortality.

Blog Category: NMWA Exhibitions

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