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Hard to Define: Artists’ Books from the Collection
Nov 20, 2017, to Mar 23, 2018On view are selected artists’ books that are magical, strange, awe-inspiring, confusing, or humorous. -
El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project
Nov 10, 2017, to Jan 5, 2018In this bilingual and participatory installation, Mónica Mayer transforms the clothesline into a tool to engage the community and facilitate dialogue around women’s experience with violence. -
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today
Oct 13, 2017, to Jan 21, 2018Magnetic Fields 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. -
Inside the Dinner Party Studio
Sep 17, 2017, to Jan 5, 2018This exhibit explores the creation of Judy Chicago’s monumental and radical work The Dinner Party through archives, documentation, and film. -
Wonder Women!
Jul 17 to Nov 17, 2017Explore images of the powerful woman, real and fictional, in a wide-ranging selection drawn from the special collections and artists’ archives of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center. -
Equilibrium: Fanny Sanín
Jul 14 to Oct 29, 2017This focus exhibition explores the working process of Colombian-born artist Fanny Sanín, known for her meticulous and colorful geometric abstract compositions. -
Revival
Jun 23 to Sep 10, 2017In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle and scale for expressive effect. -
From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir
Jun 1 to Aug 12, 2017This installation invites visitors to reflect on Beauvoir’s impact, not only in her time and not only as a feminist, but in our own time and in the areas of literature, philosophy, and popular culture. -
The Women Arrive: From Masonic Temple to Women’s Museum
Mar 20 to Jul 14, 2017On the occasion of the museum’s 30th anniversary, explore 110 years through archival photos that track the building from its earliest days as a Masonic Temple, to movie theater, and finally to its dramatic renovation into our world-class museum. Accompanied by a selection of artists’ books from the collection on the subject of landscape. -
Chromatic Scale
Mar 10 to Jul 2, 2017Polly Apfelbaum employs bright colors and abstract motifs in her prints. Chromatic Scale explores her distinctive approach and how it relates to her work in painting, sculpture, and installation. -
Border Crossing
Feb 17 to May 14, 2017Explore recent work by Jami Porter Lara, who hand-builds and pit-fires clay sculptures resembling an icon of modernity—the plastic bottle. -
New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin
Feb 17 to May 14, 2017Pottery by Maria Martinez and photographs by Laura Gilpin illuminate the midcentury Southwest as a nuanced and dynamic environment.