WASHINGTON—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) announces Pam Ayres as its Chief Financial Officer. She will play a vital role in the health of the museum, supervising all accounting functions and guiding NMWA’s finances and investments.

WASHINGTON—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) officially kicks off its 20th Anniversary year (1987–2007) with its ninth annual Fall Benefit on Thursday, November 2, 2006, at 6 p.m. Joining benefit-goers will be featured guest, actress and artist Jane Seymour. Ms. Seymour, a passionate painter, who picked up a brush nearly ten years ago, will meet and greet benefit patrons who also will have the opportunity to purchase some of her original watercolors and oil paintings.

Washington, D.C. – Imagine coming upon a library where you could actually peer into your favorite books; where a copy of Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland had its own rabbit hole for you to gaze into with openings in the shape of hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds. Would it be a real library or a library without structure and logic?

Washington, D.C. – Sheila Isham’s The Victoria Series, featuring five canvases ranging in size from roughly four by seven feet to five by eight feet, will be on view in its entirety at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from February 25 – April 24, 2005. These powerful paintings reflect the artist’s victory over personal hardships and are a tribute to her daughter Sandra who died of HIV/AIDS in 1996.

Washington, D.C. – Over 75 luminous paintings and drawings by celebrated French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) and her colleagues will be on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from Jan. 14 through May 8, 2005. Morisot’s brilliant technique, recognized by her peers as the embodiment of that avant-garde movement, will be showcased alongside works by her contemporaries, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Washington, D.C. – Over 80 vintage photographic prints that span the six decades of Lotte Jacobi’s distinguished career will be on view in Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) June 18 through Sept. 5, 2004. This major retrospective is the first in the U.S. to feature Jacobi’s famous portrait photographs as well as her under-examined stage photographs from pre-World War II Berlin and New York, her abstract Photogenics series, and documentary images taken during her travels through Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Americas.

Washington, D.C. – From media moguls Katharine Graham and
Oprah Winfrey to eBay President Meg Whitman and salon founder Elizabeth Arden, 40 of America’s most successful businesswomen will be featured in Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from Oct. 24, 2003 to Feb. 29, 2004. Women from the Colonial era to the end of the 20th century, including cosmetics pioneer Madam C.J. Walker, movie producer Mary Pickford, and aircraft manufacturer Olive Ann Beech, will be represented by over 350 documents, photographs, artifacts, and video portraits.

Washington, D.C. – NMWA will present Passionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty, highlighting over 50 of Welty’s black-and-white photographs from the 1930s. The photographs will be on view from Oct. 27, 2003, through Feb. 29, 2004. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Welty (1909-2001), a native of Mississippi best known for her novels and short stories of life in the South, was also an accomplished photographer.