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Our April issue includes a profile of Sarah Cartwright, the chief curator at The Ringling Museum. PLus our extensive arts coverage including Artist Series Concerts, Sarasota Art Museum, Arts Advocates, Key Chorale and the Sarasota Film Festival.
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The National Museum of Women<br />
in the Arts in DC<br />
The world’s first major museum solely dedicated to<br />
championing women artists<br />
Just 11% of all acquisitions at prominent<br />
American museums over the past<br />
decade were of work by women artists<br />
according to Artnet News<br />
The<br />
National<br />
Museum<br />
of Women<br />
in the<br />
Arts<br />
reopened<br />
last fall<br />
after a<br />
two-year<br />
renovation.<br />
Their<br />
historic<br />
home is<br />
at 1250<br />
New York<br />
Avenue<br />
in Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
Niki de<br />
Saint<br />
Phalle’s<br />
Pregnant<br />
Nana (1995)<br />
greets visitors<br />
in the new collection<br />
galleries.<br />
Photo by<br />
Jennifer<br />
Hughes<br />
Amy Sherald’s They call me Redbone but I’d rather<br />
be Strawberry Shortcake is part of the permanent<br />
collection.<br />
The National Museum of Women<br />
in the Arts (NMWA)—the<br />
world’s first major museum<br />
solely dedicated to championing<br />
women artists—reopened<br />
last fall after a two-year renovation.<br />
NMWA reimagined its historic home<br />
at 1250 New York Avenue in Washington,<br />
D.C., to offer flexible exhibition spaces for<br />
immersive exhibitions, a versatile studio/<br />
classroom area and improved accessibility.<br />
Located in the heart of Washington, D.C.,<br />
the National Museum of Women in the<br />
Arts advocates for better representation of<br />
women artists and serves as a vital center<br />
for thought leadership, community engagement,<br />
and social change. Just 11% of all acquisitions<br />
at prominent American museums<br />
over the past decade were of work by women<br />
artists according to Artnet News.<br />
The Museum has an array of art by women<br />
across centuries that reinforces that<br />
women in all time periods created art, they<br />
just weren’t given attention or as in many<br />
cases, had to create in private or even in secret<br />
due to cultural restrictions.<br />
They also offer rotating exhibitions that<br />
showcase historic and contemporary artwork.<br />
The collections feature more than<br />
5,500 works from the 16th century to today<br />
created by more than 1,000 artists<br />
Closed for construction since August 2021,<br />
NMWA has transformed its landmark 1908<br />
Classical Revival building with improvements<br />
to its façade, interior spaces and infrastructure.<br />
Their inaugural exhibitions and<br />
remixed collection installation highlight new<br />
opportunities: nearly 40% of the works on<br />
view are being exhibited for the first time at<br />
NMWA, including nearly 70 works from the<br />
museum’s collection.<br />
Visitors experience art from the moment<br />
terial, which she combined with imagery<br />
from traditional Chinese arts.<br />
These elements comprise her powerful<br />
portraits of laborers, refugees, orphaned<br />
children, women soldiers, and sex workers.<br />
Liu monumentalizes these downtrodden and<br />
oft-forgotten individuals in history, whom<br />
she called “spirit ghosts,” as mythic figures<br />
on the grander scale of history painting.<br />
Presenting selections from the museum’s<br />
extensive collection of works by the artist,<br />
Hung Liu: Making History highlights the<br />
array of techniques that Liu used to create<br />
her poignant portraits, including collage,<br />
layered colors and motifs, and screens of<br />
drip marks that she described as a “veil of<br />
tears.” The exhibition marks the inaugural<br />
presentation of Liu’s major paintings Summer<br />
with Cynical Fish (2014) and Winter<br />
with Cynical Fish (2014), works acquired<br />
by NMWA just prior to the start of the muthey<br />
enter the building.<br />
The rotunda features a<br />
dramatic six-foot-tall<br />
hanging sculpture by<br />
Joana Vasconcelos, as<br />
well as paintings by<br />
self-taught American<br />
artist Clementine Hunter<br />
and Indigenous Australian<br />
artist Audrey<br />
Morton Kngwarreye.<br />
On view in the Great<br />
Hall are a series of<br />
black-and-white prom<br />
portrait photographs<br />
by Mary Ellen Mark<br />
and large-scale architectural<br />
photographs<br />
of spaces by Candida<br />
Höfer. Portraits and<br />
self-portraits of women<br />
from across the centuries fill the mezzanine,<br />
with Eva Gonzalès’s Portrait d’une jeune<br />
femme (Portrait of a Young Woman) (1873–<br />
74), Frida Kahlo’s iconic Self-Portrait Dedicated<br />
to Leon Trotsky (1937) and Zanele<br />
Muholi’s photograph Katlego Mashiloane<br />
and Nosipho Lavuta, Ext. 2, Lakeside, Johannesburg<br />
(2007), among others.<br />
On display is Hung Liu: Making History,<br />
running to October 20, <strong>2024</strong>. Chinese-born<br />
American artist Hung Liu (1948 to 2021)<br />
transformed her canvases and paper surfaces<br />
into memorial sites for the women<br />
and children who she represented.<br />
Growing up during Mao Zedong’s Cultural<br />
Revolution in China, she toiled in forced<br />
labor and trained as a painter before immigrating<br />
to California in 1984, where she<br />
continued her art education. In the 1990s,<br />
Liu discovered historical black-and-white<br />
photographs that became her source ma-<br />
Hung Liu: Winter With Cynical Fish is on display in<br />
special exhibition of her work.<br />
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon<br />
Trotsky, 1937 is also a part of the permanent<br />
collection.<br />
seum’s renovation project.<br />
Another exhibition, Impressive: Antoinette<br />
Bouzonnet-Stella, focuses on the 17th-century<br />
French artist’s series of 25 prints from<br />
1675, The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond<br />
into Mantua, installed in a unique<br />
wrap-around presentation. Both exhibitions<br />
are on view through October 20, <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
Tickets:<br />
Timed tickets are required and<br />
are available online at nmwa.org/.<br />
Admission is $16 for adults, $13 for<br />
visitors ages 70 and over. Admission<br />
is free the first Sunday and second<br />
Wednesday of each month.<br />
Museum Address:<br />
1250 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC<br />
The location is great and easy to access.<br />
It’s near lots of Metro stops, museums,<br />
hotels and restaurants. Use the goDCgo<br />
interactive map to plan your trip via bus,<br />
metro, bicycle rental, and more.<br />
18 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>APRIL</strong> <strong>2024</strong>