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| October 26, 2011 |
Artist Chakaia Booker Selected for Second Installation of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project |
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WASHINGTON (October 26, 2011)—Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker has been selected as the second artist for the New York Avenue Sculpture Project, the only public art space featuring changing installations of contemporary works by women artists. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the New York Avenue Sculpture Project is a collaboration between the museum, the Downtown DC Business Improvement District (BID), the DC Office of Planning and other local agencies. |
| June 10, 2011 |
The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back
Exhibited by the National Museum of Women in the Arts
On view June 17 through October 2, 2011 |
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WASHINGTON (June 10, 2011)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, an exhibition featuring more than 70 works by the gorilla-masked crusaders, including posters, newsletters, stickers and erasers.
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| June 6, 2011 |
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women's Lithographs from Tamarind
Exhibited by the National Museum of Women in the Arts
On view June 17 through October 2, 2011 |
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WASHINGTON (June 6, 2011)—Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women's Lithographs from Tamarind brings together extraordinary works of art by women who, over the past 50 years, have helped re-energize and re-organize the artistic medium of lithography. Featuring 75 original prints by 42 artists, Pressing Ideas celebrates the diversity, innovation and collaborative nature of lithography. The exhibition is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts June 17, 2011, through October 2, 2011.
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| May 25, 2011 |
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS PARTICIPATES IN BLUE STAR MUSEUMS INITIATIVE
More than 800 museums across America will offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer |
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WASHINGTON (May 25, 2011)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts joins more than 800 museums and the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to participate in the Blue Star Museums Initiative. This special program provides free museum admission to active duty military personnel and their families between Memorial Day, May 30 and Labor Day, September 5, 2011. |
| May 17, 2011 |
National Museum for Women in the Arts Selects NavigationArts for Website Redesign: DC Museum Looks to the Web to Expand its Reach and Further its Mission |
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has selected NavigationArts to redesign their website and introduce new audiences to their mission. NavigationArts’ innovative approach will help drive traffic to the Museum via new channels and better showcase its historic and contemporary works of art. |
| May 17, 2011 |
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS Director Susan Fisher Sterling receives ArtTable’s 30th Honors Award |
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WASHINGTON (April 28, 2011)—Susan Fisher Sterling, Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), has received ArtTable’s 30th Honors Award. ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the visual arts, recognized 30 leading women whose contributions have transformed the field of the visual arts over the past three decades. |
| January 25, 2011 |
Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection |
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WASHINGTON (January 25, 2011)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) opens the 2011 exhibition season with Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, featuring more than 100 photographs made between 1865 and 2004 that demonstrate how women have long embraced the subjectivity and quirkiness of the camera’s eye. The exhibition is provided by Bank of America’s Art in our Communities™ program. As part of their program, Bank of America encouraged NMWA to review the bank’s collection of international art by women and organize an exhibition for museum visitors.
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| December 1, 2010 |
P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection |
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WASHINGTON (December 1, 2010)--Beginning this winter through March 6, 2011, the National Museum of Women in the Arts presents P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, an exhibition of 28 contemporary photographs and sculptures drawn from the more than 300 works the couple has donated to the museum. P(art)ners demonstrates the Podestas' shared collecting vision and honors their participation in the inaugural TEDWomen conference in Washington D.C. |
| November 4, 2010 |
2010 Fall Benefit |
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An Evening of Entertainment Honoring Kate Baldwin and Tina Fabrique |
| September 10, 2010 |
Soprano Olga Orlovskaya and Pianist Vera Danchenko-Stern
Perform Russian Themed Concert
October 6, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (September 7, 2010)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a special evening of Russian Love Songs, from Tchaikovsky’s “It Happened in the Early Spring” to Zubov’s “Don’t Go Away,” featuring acclaimed Russian soprano Olga Orlovskaya with noted pianist Vera Danchenko-Stern and jazz pianist Victor Prudovsky. This free recital, part of NMWA’s Shenson Chamber Music Concert Series, will be held October 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the museum’s performance hall at 1250 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. |
| August 30, 2010 |
NMWA Explores The "Visual Poetry" Of Elisabetta Gut With Books Without Words
September 10, 2010 - January 16, 2011 |
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WASHINGTON (August 10, 2010)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut, the Italian artist’s first American solo exhibition. Featuring more than 20 of her artists’ books, collage-poems, book-objects and object-poems, the exhibition will be on view at NMWA from September 10, 2010, to January 16, 2011. |
| August 27, 2010 |
NMWA and SCAD Present Two New Sculptural Installations
The In-Between by Artist JuYeon Kim
June 25—September 13, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (June 22, 2010)—The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is pleased to partner with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to present The In-Between, an exhibition featuring two distinct yet interconnected sculptural installations by Korean-born artist JuYeon Kim. Created with the assistance of SCAD students, as well as select faculty and the Fiber Guild of Savannah, the two meditative spaces—one fashioned from embroidered fabric panels and the other a wooden construction embellished with textural forms—feature thousands of human figures presented in an astounding array of poses and circumstances. Preliminary drawings and models by Kim and SCAD students will also be on display June 25 through September 13, 2010. |
| August 25, 2010 |
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
70-Year Retrospective Highlights African, Caribbean and American Iconography October 9, 2010—January 9, 2011 |
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WASHINGTON (July 13, 2010)— The National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective surveying Jones’ wide array of subjects and styles. Loïs Mailou Jones is on view October 9, 2010, through January 9, 2011.
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| June 18, 2010 |
NMWA PRESENTS EMERGING ARTISTS IN WOMEN TO WATCH SERIES
Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figure Painting
July 2, 2010–September 12, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (June 17, 2010)—The second installment in the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ (NMWA) Women to Watch exhibition series examines innovative approaches to a traditional subject; figure painting. Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figure Painting features work by eight emerging artists from the U.S. and U.K. The exhibition is on view July 2, 2010, through September 12, 2010. |
| June 17, 2010 |
Artist June Wayne pays tribute to her
fiercely independent mother in "The Dorothy Series"
On view at NMWA June 25, 2010–September 13, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (June 17, 2010)—Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ (NMWA) collection, June Wayne’s “Dorothy Series” offers an intimate look at the life of the artist’s hard-working and fiercely independent mother, Dorothy Kline. The exhibition is on view from June 25, 2010, through September 13, 2010. |
| June 17, 2010 |
NMWA highlights creative partnerships between artists and master printers in The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression
On view at NMWA June 25, 2010-September 13, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (June 17, 2010)— The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression highlights the creative partnerships between SOLO Impression Inc. founder Judith Solodkin and important contemporary women artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Maya Lin, Jean Shin and Nancy Spero. Featuring 45 prints from National Museum of Women in the Arts’ (NMWA) collection and Solodkin’s personal holdings, the show demonstrates the New York print workshop’s vitality, including innovative work being done today. The exhibition is on view June 25, 2010, through September 12, 2010. |
| December 2, 2009 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Receives Charity Navigator 4-Star Rating |
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WASHINGTON—For the second year in a row, Charity Navigator, America’s foremost independent charity evaluator, awarded the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) a 4-star rating, the highest rating available, for sound fiscal management.
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| October 12, 2009 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Launches Web 2.0 Initiative |
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WASHINGTON—NMWA recently embraced Web 2.0 launching its own blog and joining popular social networking sites.
“We launched our blog Broad Strokes on July 6, Frida Kahlo’s birthday, and are delighted by the enthusiastic response. We’ve heard from women and men around the globe who love our museum and want to feel connected to us weekly, even daily. This is possible for the first time through the blog as well as our presence on Facebook and Twitter,” says NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling.
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| October 8, 2009 |
"Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Painting" at NMWA
October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—National Museum of Women in the Arts presents 26 masterworks by some of Australia’s best-known painters, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Abie Loy Kemarre, Mitjili Napurrla, and Eubena Nampitjin in Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Painting, on view October 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010 |
| October 8, 2009 |
Enigmatic Images Unveiled in Telling Secrets:
Codes, Captions, and Conundrums in Contemporary Art at NMWA,
October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—With contemporary art, what you see is rarely all you get. Artists today visually and thematically layer abstraction, text, symbols, cultural references, and personal experiences to create meaning and depth in their work. Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions and Conundrums in Contemporary Art features 39 paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and prints from NMWA’s collection selected to inspire viewers to make multiple interpretations and inscribe their own ideas and experiences onto each work. |
| October 8, 2009 |
Classic Beauty Blooms on Canvas in Elements of Nature: Equines and Still Lifes by Clarice Smith at NMWA, October 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON—This fall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clarice Smith’s 30 years of creating a significant body of accomplished, admired work go on display as Elements of Nature: Equines and Still Lifes by Clarice Smith, from October 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010. |
| October 8, 2009 |
Hard Copy: Book as Sculpture Gives Body to the Written Word
On view at NMWA August 7, 2009 through January 17, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON–The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Hard Copy: Book as Sculpture, an exhibition of 15 artist books that transcend the boundaries of ordinary books and sculpture alike. On view through January 17, 2010, each artwork takes the subject of the book, either literally or figuratively, and transforms it into a three-dimensional piece of art. |
| March 20, 2009 |
“Fashion Forward: Photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe” At National Museum of Women in the Arts, March 20 – August 30, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—From 1936 to 1958, American photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) brought her formal precision, irreverent sense of humor, and volatile personality to the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar. As a staff photographer, she produced 86 covers and thousands of color and black-and-white photographs, including those on view in a special exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The exhibition, “Fashion Forward: Photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe,” features 29 black-and-white photographs that range from humorous juxtapositions of Dahl-Wolfe’s models with famous paintings and sculptures, to glamorous shots of fashions by design luminaries Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, and Claire McCardell. |
| March 16, 2009 |
NMWA and Washington Shakespeare Company Present Sort-of-Jane Austen Reading Series: Women Dramatists and Writers of the Renaissance
April 6 - May 25, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON— During Shakespeare’s time, women were not permitted to act or produce works for the public stage. As a result, dramatic works authored by women during the Renaissance were published under a man’s name or never performed during the writers’ lifetimes. Through the joint efforts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Washington Shakespeare Company, the writings of these unsung women playwrights and dramatists are now being rediscovered and recognized for their historical and theatrical contributions to society. |
| March 13, 2009 |
"Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1900-1945" At NMWA
March 20 through July 5, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—Courage, perseverance, diligence, business sense and networking abilities—these were among the necessary qualifications for a woman in turn of the 20th century Hungary who pursued a career in photography. Featuring 80 works, many of which have never been on public view in the United States, Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers 1900–1945, explores the role women played in the development of photography as an art form and as a documentary medium during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval. |
| March 13, 2009 |
NMWA Celebrates the work of American Fashion Designer Mary McFadden in Mary McFadden: Goddesses, March 20 through August 30, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—For the first time in its 22 year history, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) salutes haute couture by presenting Mary McFadden: Goddesses, an exhibition of gowns, clothing ensembles and jewelry by internationally-renowned American fashion designer Mary McFadden. On view from March 20 through August 30, 2009, the exhibition also features historic textiles and jewelry drawn from McFadden’s own collection assembled during her extensive world travels. Mary McFadden: Goddesses was organized by The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia and curated by Lorie Mertes, Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator. |
| March 6, 2009 |
“Miracle of Movement: Isabel Bishop in Union Square, New York” At National Museum of Women in the Arts, March 6, 2009–May 17, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON—New York artist Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) devoted her career to depicting the fleeting movements of passersby she observed near her 14th Street studio in Union Square. Inspired by the realism of New York’s Ashcan school as well as by Rembrandt’s depictions of common people, Bishop rejected lofty themes in her art and portrayed her subjects in the middle of candid movements. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and displayed in the Teresa Lozano Long Gallery, “Miracle of Movement: Isabel Bishop in Union Square, New York” features 20 works from NMWA’s collection, including 17 prints and paintings generously bequeathed to NMWA in 2004 by Catherine Gamble Curran. Ranging in date from 1927 to 1984, they are studies of the mobility of the human form and daily life in Manhattan. |
| March 3, 2009 |
NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling Receives Women's Caucus for Art 2009 President's Award |
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WASHINGTON—Susan Fisher Sterling, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been selected to receive the Women’s Caucus for Art 2009 President’s Award. The award was established in 1983 to recognize exemplary women in mid-career and highlight their outstanding contributions to the arts community. |
| February 20, 2009 |
Breaking Through: Women Leading Museums
A Panel Discussion Celebrating Women’s History Month 2009 |
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In celebration of Women’s History month, four women who direct museums in Washington, D.C. will candidly explore the role of women in our nation’s cultural life in a panel discussion at the National Museum of Women in the Arts at 6:30 p.m. on March 26, 2009. The program is co-sponsored by ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, dedicated to recognizing the contributions of women artists. |
| November 29, 2006 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Founder to Receive Legion of Honor from French Government
French Ambassador to Present Wilhelmina Cole Holladay with France’s Highest Award November 30 |
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder and chair of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will receive the Legion of Honor, the French government’s highest award, Thursday, November 30. |
| November 9, 2006 |
National Museum of Women in the Arts Founder Receives National Medal of Arts: President Presents Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Honor for Her Service to the Arts |
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder and chair of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) today received the National Medal of Honor from President Bush in an Oval Office ceremony. |
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