What’s Inside
The winter/spring 2016 issue of Women in the Arts features:
- An exhibition, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, featuring more than 80 photographs and a video installation by 12 contemporary women artists
- French portraiture from the museum’s collection
- Zine art on view in the Library and Research Center
- A calendar full of museum tours, events, and programs
Broad Strokes Blog
She Who Tells a Story: Gohar Dashti
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World offers a vision of the world she has witnessed.
![A couple sitting in a burned-out car in wedding finery, they look directly at the camera with neutral or stricken expressions.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gohar-Dashti-Todays-life-and-War-2008-5-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25x1-1024x455.jpg)