National Museum Of Women In The Arts

Patchwork Art Of Rosie Lee Tompkins At Washington Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:59:57 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents the Washington showing of “Something Pertaining to God”: The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins, June 27–September 21, 2008, an exhibition showcasing the work of the widely-acclaimed African-American quilt-maker Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006).

Women Artists To Watch 2008

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:58:27 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a new and innovative program, Women to Watch 2008, in cooperation with its national and international committees to increase the visibility of emerging and underrepresented women artists. Women to Watch 2008 is on view through June 15, 2008.

Washington Museum Presents Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:57:52 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will give Washington's art-going public a rare treat when it presents Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast through May 18, 2008. This room-sized installation, artist Louise Nevelson's groundbreaking assemblage, is the first in a series of monumental sculptures created by Nevelson (1899-1988) from found wood objects, a conceptual style that thrust the Ukrainian-born artist to the forefront of the American art scene in the second half of the 20th century.

Washington Receives Documentary Photographs By Cherel Ito

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:51:02 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently acquired 34 documentary photographs by Cherel Ito. The two suites of works are from Ito's North American travels—one, from 1968, of Mississippi and the Ozarks, and the second, from 1968 and 1980, of various American Indian Nations. Photographs by Cherel Ito: Recent Donations to the Collection is on view at NMWA through May 25, 2008.

Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast

ruzik_tuzik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:39:13 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will give Washington's art-going public a rare treat when it presents Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast through May 18, 2008.

'Women In Art From Renaissance To Surrealism' At Washington Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:30:20 -0600

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has lent 20 works from its extraordinary collection to the exhibition L'Arte delle Donne dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo (Women in Art from Renaissance to Surrealism) on view at the Palazzo Reale in Milan through March 9, 2008.

Washington Museum Exhibits 'Palazzo Reale'

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:13:39 -0600

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) located in Washington, D.C. has lent 20 works from its extraordinary collection to the exhibition L’Arte delle Donne dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo (Women in Art from Renaissance to Surrealism) on view at the Palazzo Reale in Milan through March 9, 2008.

Washington Museum Presents Art Of Feminist Revolution

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:14:45 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will present the first East Coast showing of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, a landmark survey of the remarkable body of work that emerged from the relationship between art and feminism in and around the 1970s. WACK! will be on view through December 16, 2007.

Washington Museum Presents 'WACK'

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:47:17 -0500

Washington Museum Presents Mexican Art

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:15:17 -0500

Gregorio Luke, Director of the Musuem of Latina American Art in Long Beach, Ca., will discuss the life and influence of Frida Kahlo through an illustrated, multimedia presentation at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Sunday, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m.

Mexican Art At Washington Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:05:24 -0500

Sarah Pohlman Wins Artist’s Book Award

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:09:15 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently named Sarah Pohlman the 2007 Library Fellows Award Winner for her limited-edition book Everything and Everyone: In the End We All Are One. Everything and Everyone: In the End We All Are One was supported by the NMWA Library Fellows, whose objective is to encourage and promote book arts.