What’s Inside
The summer 2018 issue of Women in the Arts features:
- The exhibition Heavy Metal—Women to Watch 2018, the fifth in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, which features artists who work in metal
- Bound to Amaze, which highlights the museum’s collection of artists’ books and longtime curator Krystyna Wasserman
- Abstract art by Mildred Thompson new to the museum’s collection
- Social media engagement in the third year of the #5WomenArtists campaign
Broad Strokes Blog
Artist Spotlight: Mildred Thompson
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for the first time, revealing the artists’ role as under-recognized leaders in abstraction.
