Archive for the ‘NMWA Magazine’ Category
Chakaia Booker: Evocative, Dynamic Works in the New York Avenue Sculpture Project
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: March 7, 2012
Chakaia Booker’s creative process involves exploring and exploiting the full artistic potential of rubber tires. She carefully selects tires with easy-to-cut, worn-out treads in order to transform them into her desired shapes. To fabricate her largest sculptures, Booker uses computer-aided design software, creates detailed models, and constructs armatures from pressure-treated wood and steel rods. Just [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit—No. 2”: On view now at NMWA!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: February 16, 2012
In a 1922 interview with the New York Sun, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) stated, “Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get to the real meaning of things.”1 O’Keeffe’s “Jack-in-Pulpit” paintings were inspired by the flowers she saw around her summer home on [...]
Women in the Arts: Take a Look at the Fall issue to Learn about Current Exhibitions and Programming!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: November 15, 2011
Pick up a copy of NMWA’s fall issue of Women in the Arts for information about exhibitions, programming, and events, and preview the amazing artwork that will be on view throughout the museum’s upcoming 25th anniversary in 2012! On the cover, Amy Lamb’s Vase of Flowers I (1999) is currently on view in Trove: The [...]
Check out NMWA’s Summer Magazine for Interviews, Artwork, and Exhibition Information!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: August 30, 2011
NMWA’s summer issue of Women in the Arts, free to members and NMWA visitors, is a great resource for information about the museum, recent events, and current exhibitions. On the cover, Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith’s Modern Times (1993) is currently on view in Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women’s Lithographs from Tamarind (on view through October 2). Quick-to-see-Smith is [...]
Hot off the Press: Winter/Spring 2011 Women in the Arts Magazine
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: February 22, 2011
The Winter/Spring 2011 Women in the Arts magazines are here. Stop by the museum to pick up a copy and peruse our spring exhibitions! Cover Story: *Eye Wonder: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection: Eye Wonder presents more than one hundred photographs made between 1865 and today that demonstrate how women photographers have long [...]
Hot Off the Press: Fall Issue of Women in the Arts Magazine
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: October 19, 2010
One of the many benefits of membership to NMWA is a subscription to Women in the Arts magazine. Last week, NMWA members received the fall issue, featuring articles about the fall exhibitions and the latest news about what is happening at NMWA and in the art world: *The Mask as Muse: The Influence of African [...]
