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SWAN Day 2012 at NMWA
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: March 29, 2012
Join theater professionals and enthusiasts for a marathon of staged readings as part of the SWAN Day 2012 celebration! SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day began five years ago as the brainchild of arts leaders Jan Lisa Huttner and Martha Richards, whose goal was to serve both artists and audiences. Since the celebration’s founding in [...]
Bienvenue to NMWA’s French Film Series!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: March 2, 2012
Mesdames et Messieurs, In conjunction with Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, NMWA is excited to present a French-inspired film festival—pour vous! Look for a new film on the first Sundays of March and April, a double feature on Saturday, May 5, and the last installment Sunday, [...]
Trove Trilogy
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: October 24, 2011
Written by theater specialist and George Washington University professor Jodi Kanter and directed by theater educator and actor Brent Stansell, Trove Trilogy explores the lives and work of three artists highlighted in the Trove: The Collection in Depth exhibition. Three brief one-act plays will be performed in the exhibition galleries, within view of each artist’s work. In [...]
Come one, come all: Student Tours at NMWA!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: October 19, 2011
Ever wondered what the gritty tires might feel like in Chakaia Booker’s Acid Rain? What about the instrumental sounds echoing in The Concert by Judith Leyster? Is the espresso smell continually lurking in the air around Céline Marie Tabary’s Terrase de café? Wonder no longer! NMWA’s engaging and interactive tours offer students the chance to [...]
Learn to Create Mosaic Artwork with NMWA!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: September 14, 2011
Join NMWA on Saturday, October 1, for Piecing it All Together with Valerie Theberge! This adult workshop, free for participants 16 and older, explores the artwork of Niki de Saint Phalle (currently on view along New York Avenue), while participants gain inspiration for their own mosaics. Local mosaic artist Valerie Theberge will lead this exciting [...]
NMWA’s Summer Teacher Institute Connects Art, Books, and Creativity!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: July 27, 2011
The second annual week-long Teachers Connect: Art, Books, and Creativity Summer Institute last week was a great success! Twenty-two teachers from the D.C. metropolitan area gathered at NMWA for a week-long institute centered on the Art, Books, and Creativity curriculum, created by NMWA as a tool to help teachers integrate arts into their classrooms. For [...]
Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Guerrilla Girls in Venice
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: July 21, 2011
Some of the most recent works in NMWA’s The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back are from the Girls’s 2005 showing at the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art fair that has taken place in Venice every two years since 1895. The fair has a central exhibition pavilion as well as national pavilions for select participating countries. [...]
Film Screening: “A Healthy Baby Girl” with filmmaker Judith Helfand
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: July 6, 2011
Join us July 19, at 7 p.m., for a screening of A Healthy Baby Girl with its award-winning filmmaker, Judith Helfand! As part of the film series Linking Environment, Healing, and Creativity, filmmaker, activist, and educator Helfand will introduce the film and engage with the audience in a post-screening discussion. A Healthy Baby Girl is [...]
Contest Follow-up: How Many Women are Represented in Janson’s?
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: June 27, 2011
- In: Contests | Education | NMWA Exhibitions
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Want to see influential work by genre-defining artists like Frida Kahlo? Don’t look in Janson’s! A few weeks ago, we challenged readers to guess the number of women artists included in the 8th edition of Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. We were inspired by one of our current exhibitions, The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, [...]
Win NMWA’s Tiny Folio! Guess the Number of Women Artists in Janson’s History of Art
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: June 13, 2011
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After learning about Dutch painter Clara Peeters while traveling in Europe in the 1960s, Wilhelmina Holladay, NMWA’s founder, looked up the artist in Janson’s History of Art. She referenced Janson’s because she understood that it was a classic, widely used survey of Western art. However, not only was Peeters not listed, there were no women included [...]
