The Podestas have worked together to build a renowned collection of contemporary art, which has a focus on art by women. P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, features 28 contemporary photographs and sculptures drawn from the more than 300 works the couple has donated to the museum.

A Life in Vibrant Color examines the prolific, seven-decade career of Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998), a pioneering and accomplished mid-century artist and teacher who remains a source of inspiration to many artists. Her oeuvre remains a substantial and remarkable contribution to the world of American art.

Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut features twenty-two works by the artist carefully crafted from her dreams, memories, and love for music and poetry.

NMWA’s newest installment in the exhibition series, Women to Watch, centers on contemporary figurative painting. The 17 works in the exhibition reflect myriad styles and approaches, but all highlight figure painters’ embrace of the slow, subtle, and singular set of processes involved in painting people.

Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ collection, June Wayne’s Dorothy Series offers an intimate look at the life of the artist’s hard-working and fiercely independent mother, Dorothy Kline.

The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression highlights the creative partnerships between SOLO Impression Inc. founder Judith Solodkin and important contemporary women artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Maya Lin, Jean Shin and Nancy Spero.

This exhibition features two distinct yet interconnected sculptural installations by Korean-born artist Juyeon Kim.

This outdoor exhibition featured Niki de Saint Phalle’s sculptures showcasing the ancient art form of mosaic in a new, exciting way. Her figures take on a life of their own: their large scale and active lines create motion and vigor.

A Dream...but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey features work by eleven internationally-established artists who pose the elemental question “why do so many women seek to conform and adhere to standards set by others, and continue to be judged by their roles as spouse, mother, and keeper of the house?”

Pomp and Power features a set of twenty-five engravings entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua by Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641–1676).