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Louise Moillon: Still Lifes and Saint-Germain (Part 2 of 2)
Click here for Part 1 of 2! Louise Moillon’s work became known to the public in 1629 when her stepfather, François Garnier, was invited to exhibit his work in Grenoble. Betraying her professional...
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“Hey, Soul Sister”
“I didn’t want people to be able to look, and look away, because a lot of people do that with art. . . . I want them to look and see. I want to grab their eyes and hold them, because this is America.”...
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Faith Ringgold as the Messenger: Now and Then
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s, NMWA’s current exhibition, can enlighten and inspire observers, as I discovered through connecting my NMWA internship with an art...
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Tragedy & Fantasy: A Rose for Isabella Blow
Audrey Niffenegger’s works explore the world of the unconscious mind through dreams and fantasies—within NMWA’s exhibition Awake in the Dream World, many of these pieces are gathered in a gallery...
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New Book Acquisitions at the Library: KYOPO
KYOPO Many of you may be familiar with Korean photographer Cindy Hwang, known as CYJO, from her participation in the National Portrait Gallery’s 2011–12 exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American...
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Audrey Niffenegger and Faith Ringgold (Part 1 of 2): Sending Messages
At first glance, the two exhibitions on view this summer at NMWA, Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger and American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s (both...
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Audrey Niffenegger and Faith Ringgold (Part 2 of 2): Shock Value
Exhibitions of work by Audrey Niffenegger and Faith Ringgold are on view through November 10 at NMWA. At first glance their work seems quite different, but in addition to employing text in their art,...
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History of Violence: Faith Ringgold Documents an American Past
While the 1960s resonate in the American cultural memory as a divisive and turbulent era, prevalent trends in contemporary art at the time offered very little indication of this national upheaval....
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Faith Ringgold Captures the “Long Road” Ahead for Women
The bleak walls of the Rikers Island Women’s prison may not be the most traditional venue to display art, but Faith Ringgold embraced the location and presented a mural to inspire the female inmates....
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The Audrey Niffenegger Book Club
Though Audrey Niffenegger may be best known for her 2003 novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, the “Adventures in Bookland” gallery in NMWA’s current exhibition of her work showcases her sensational talent...
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Audrey Niffenegger’s Self-Portraits: Fiction or Autobiography?
“The self-portrait is like writing in the first person…There are a variety of ways to use it,” Audrey Niffenegger has said. Within NMWA’s Niffenegger exhibition, Awake in the Dream World, the States of...
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First Ladies, Abstracted in Textile
Just a few city blocks from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the White House famously serves as the residence for the President and his (or someday, her) family. As contemporary artist Andrea...
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Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger’s Hybrid Creatures: Part 1 of 2
The visual novels of Audrey Niffenegger (b. 1963) are replete with curiously concocted creatures that serve as the primary narrative tools for advancing her bizarre, dreamlike tales. Raven Girl, 2012;...
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Children of Two Worlds: Audrey Niffenegger’s Hybrid Creatures: Part 2 of 2
(Click here for Part 1 of 2!) On view at NMWA through November 10, in Awake in the Dream World, Audrey Niffenegger’s work includes an array of fantastical, surreal, and dreamlike creatures. One of...
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Fluid Identities: The “Parts” and “Projects” of Nikki Lee
The old cliché “a picture is worth a thousand words” may actually be true of photographs by Nikki S. Lee in NMWA’s collection. In her series “Parts,” Lee curates scenes of herself with a significant...
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Dominating with Depth: Faith Ringgold
As an artist, Faith Ringgold has always worked to tell her story. Faith Ringgold at NMWA with (right) American People Series #1: Between Friends, 1963; Collection Friends of the Neuberger Museum of...
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Ellen Day Hale: Traveling Adventurously
In the early 19th century, the education of young upper-class males was capped by a “grand tour,” a traditional trip around Europe that gave them an opportunity to see the world and experience art and...
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Library Fellows Treated to Book Arts Presentations at 24th Meeting
On October 23, 2013, several members of the NMWA Library Fellows met for their 24th annual fall meeting to view the latest winner of the Fellows’ artist’s book award competition, hear the winning...
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A Case of Mistaken Identity? Spotlight on Lilla Cabot Perry
Lady with a Bowl of Violets (ca. 1910) has been called one of NMWA’s “best-loved works.” Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933) painted this Impressionist portrait of an unknown sitter more than 100 years ago,...
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Printer, Painter, Wanderer
American artist Ellen Day Hale is best known for her skill as a portrait painter, but a body of prints currently on view at NMWA illuminates her printmaking, often based on themes and scenes she...
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