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The Female Form through Female Eyes
Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the...
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5 Fast Facts: Andrea Higgins
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Andrea Higgins, whose work is currently on view at NMWA in the collection galleries. Andrea Higgins (b. 1970) 1. Tantalizing Textiles Higgins’s interest...
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“Say It Enough and It Becomes . . .”
Despite everything we learned in school about sticks and stones, language has an immense impact on the world. Words transform perceptions, and once words are spoken they can continue to inform our...
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5 Fast Facts: Suzanne Valadon
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), whose work is in NMWA’s collection. Suzanne Valadon, Girl on a Small Wall, 1930; Oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 29 in.; Gift of...
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Not Losing their Luster—Ceramics by Daisy Makeig-Jones
NMWA exhibition Casting a Spell: Ceramics by Daisy Makeig-Jones features work that the artist (1881–1945) created for the Wedgwood pottery company. She is best known for Fairyland Lusterware, a...
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5 Fast Facts: Rachel Ruysch
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), whose work will be on view at NMWA in Super Natural, June 5–September 13, 2015. Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) 1. Affinities...
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5 Questions with Jennifer Celio
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Women with Wanderlust
During the press preview for Super Natural, NMWA Chief Curator Kathryn Wat stressed one fact above all others about featured artist Maria Sibylla Merian: this woman was radical. Not only did she...
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5 Questions with Goldschmied & Chiari
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Flowers, Fruit, and Fatality
“What is natural?” is the intriguing question surrounding Super Natural. Two of the exhibition’s artists, Rachel Ruysch and Sam Taylor-Johnson, answer this query through their respective works of art....
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5 Questions with Dawn Holder
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Questions with Rebecca Hutchinson
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Questions with Mimi Kato
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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5 Fast Facts: Elisabetta Gut
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Elisabetta Gut, whose work is currently on view in NMWA’s galleries. Elisabetta Gut (b.1934) 1. Who Knew? Gut began her artistic career as a painter, but...
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5 Questions with Ysabel LeMay
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Painting with Confidence: Early Female Self-Portraiture
Self-portraits convey more than just appearances—they affirm an artist’s identity. In the 16th and 17th centuries, women artists made portraits of themselves in their studios. Self-portraiture helped...
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5 Questions with Andrea Lira
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015, is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Victorian Decadence & Visual Decay
Polly Morgan’s Systemic Inflammation is a striking artwork in Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015. Featuring small yellow and orange birds rising from a tethered position atop a charred metal cage,...
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5 Questions with Polly Morgan
The fourth installment of NMWA’s biennial exhibition series, Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 is presented by the museum and participating national and international outreach committees. The...
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Caution: Beware the Boundaries of Beasties
Patricia Piccinini’s The Stags is currently on view in NMWA’s summer exhibition Super Natural. In sleek and shimmering fiberglass, the two large sculptural pieces of The Stags combine characteristics...
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