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Masonic Temple
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National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Location	1250 New York Ave NW Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°54′0″N 77°i′46″W  /  38.90000°N 77.02944°Westward  / 38.90000; -77.02944 Coordinates: 38°54′0″N 77°1′46″W  /  38.90000°Northward 77.02944°West  / 38.90000; -77.02944
Surface area	0.iii acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1903
Architect	Wood, Donn & Deming
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP referenceNo.	86002920[1]
Added to NRHP	February 18, 1987

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the earth solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since opening in 1987, the museum has caused a collection of more than 5,500 works past more than 1,000 artists, ranging from the 16th century to today. The drove includes works by Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Amy Sherald. NMWA besides holds the only painting by Frida Kahlo in Washington, D.C.

The museum occupies an old Masonic Temple, a building listed on the U.Due south. National Register of Historic Places.

History [edit]

The museum was founded to reform traditional histories of fine art. It is dedicated to discovering and making known women artists who take been overlooked, erased, or unacknowledged, and assuring the place of women in gimmicky art. The museum's founder, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, and her husband Wallace F. Holladay began collecting fine art in the 1960s, just as scholars were first to discuss the under-representation of women in museum collections and major art exhibitions. Impressed by a 17th-century Flemish nonetheless life painting by Clara Peeters that they saw in Europe, they sought out information on Peeters and found that the definitive art history texts referenced neither her nor any other woman artist. They became committed to collecting artwork by women and somewhen to creating a museum and research center.^[ii]

The National Museum of Women in the Arts was incorporated in December 1981 as a private, non-profit museum, and the Holladay donation became the core of the establishment's permanent collection. After purchasing and extensively renovating a quondam Masonic Temple, NMWA opened in April 1987 with the inaugural exhibition American Women Artists, 1830–1930.^{[2] [3]} To underscore its commitment to increasing the attention given to women in all disciplines, NMWA commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich to write Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra inspired by five paintings from the permanent collection, for an opening concert.^[iv]

As of 2022, Director Susan Fisher Sterling heads a staff of more than l people.^[5]

Building [edit]

In 1983, NMWA purchased a landmark 78,810 square feet (7,322 thousand²) former Masonic temple in the Renaissance Revival style to firm its works. After extensive renovations that included the addition of the two dramatic marble stairways linking the commencement floor and mezzanine, the museum opened to the public on April seven, 1987. In November 1997, the Elisabeth A. Kasser Fly was opened, adding two new galleries, a larger museum store, and a reception room. The unabridged facility 84,110 square feet (vii,814 m^two). The unabridged facility is now 84,110 square feet (7,814 yardⁱⁱ).^[6]

The museum closed in Baronial 2021 for a major renovation, with plans to reopen in late 2023. Primal improvements include enlarged gallery space, a new destination for researchers and education programs, enhanced amenities and accessibility for visitors as well every bit infrastructure and storage upgrades to better the long-term conservation and security of the museum's collection.^{[5] [7]}

Interior of the main floor

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay [edit]

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay was the founder and chair of the Lath of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Since her discovery that women artists accept historically been omitted from collegiate fine art history texts, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay fabricated it her mission to bring to the forefront the accomplishments of women through collecting, exhibiting and researching women artists of all nationalities and time periods.

Holladay created individual committees of over one,000 volunteers from 27 states and 7 countries, to give educational opportunities to children through collaborations with schools and other community groups, every bit well as provided opportunities for adults to participate and encourage art in local communities across the globe.

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay's interest in art was sparked as a student at Elmira College in New York, where she studied art history, followed by graduate work at the University of Paris. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Art, Who'south Who in the World, and she held many honorary degrees and achievement awards for her work in the arts customs. In 2006 she received the National Medal of Arts from the United States and the Légion d'honneur from the French government. In 2007 Holladay received the Gilded Medal for the Arts from the National Arts Lodge in New York City.

Holladay died on March 6, 2021, at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 98.

New York Avenue Sculpture Project [edit]

The museum sponsored a series of installations on New York Artery in Washington, DC from 13th Street to 9th Street, in the middle of Mount Vernon Foursquare. The point of the effort was to bring "character" to an area where "there is a lot of expert stuff going on," due to revitalization programs in the neighborhood.

Niki de Saint Phalle's works, four in full, were the offset in a series of installations.^[8] The installation of de Saint Phalle'due south iconic popular art works was meant as a dissimilarity to the traditional sculpture that graces the streets and squares of Washington. All 5 major median strips were made into "sculpture islands," equally described by National Museum of Women in the Art's director Susan Fisher Sterling. Another inspiration for the project came from the lack of innovative contemporary art in Washington, encouraging the evolution of the expanse.^[8]

The projection was sponsored by Medda Gudelsky, the D.C. Downtown B.I.D., the Philip L. Graham Fund, the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation, members of the museum, and the D.C. Department of Transportation.^[9]

The works remained upward for 1 year.^[10]

Collection [edit]

The collection currently contains more than iv,500 works in a variety of styles and media, spanning from the 16th century to present solar day. Among the primeval works is Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of a Noblewoman, ca. 1580. There are besides a number of special collections, including 18th-century botanical prints, works by British and Irish women silversmiths from the 17th–19th centuries,^[eleven] and more than 1,000 unique and limited edition artists' books.^[12]

Virtually 1,000 artists are represented, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Rosa Bonheur, Chakaia Booker, Louise Bourgeois, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Camille Claudel, Louisa Courtauld, Petah Coyne, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Elaine de Kooning, Lesley Dill, Helen Frankenthaler, Sonia Gechtoff, Marguerite Gérard, Nan Goldin, Nancy Graves, Grace Hartigan, Frida Kahlo, Angelica Kauffman, Käthe Kollwitz, Lee Krasner, Justine Kurland, Bettye Lane, Marie Laurencin, Hung Liu, Judith Leyster, Maria Martinez, Maria Sibylla Merian, Joan Mitchell, Gabriele Münter, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Sarah Miriam Peale, Clara Peeters, Lilla Cabot Perry, Jaune Quick-to-Run across Smith, Rachel Ruysch, Elisabetta Sirani, Joan Snyder, Lilly Martin Spencer, Alma Thomas, Suzanne Valadon, Amy Sherald, and Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun.

Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center [edit]

The Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Inquiry Center (LRC) provides researchers with information well-nigh women visual artists from all fourth dimension periods and nationalities.^[13] It is open up to scholars, students, researchers, curators, museum professionals, and the general public. The LRC drove includes xviii,500 volumes of books and exhibition catalogues, fifty journal titles, and research files on 18,000 individual women artists. These files include resumes, correspondence, reproductions, articles, and other ephemeral materials. The Arts and Amusement Network Media Library holds approximately 500 videos, DVDs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials, including examples of video art, interviews with women artists, documentaries, and films directed by women.

Besides available to researchers are The Nelleke Nix and Marianne Huber Collection: The Frida Kahlo Papers consists of more than 360 unpublished letters, postcards, notes, clippings, printed matter, and drawings relating to the artist's life and work. The LRC too holds artist Judy Chicago'south visual archives.

In spring 2007, the LRC launched "Clara: Database of Women Artists," a user-friendly searchable interface for biographic information on close to 18,000 historic and contemporary women artists from effectually the world. Since integrated within the NMWA web site, Clara has been decommissioned and is in the procedure of being moved.

Exhibitions [edit]

Beginning in 1987 with American Women Artists, 1830–1930, NMWA has presented more than 200 exhibitions, including:^{[fourteen] [15]}

• Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend (3/3/2021–6/27/2021)
• Judy Chicago—The Terminate: A Meditation on Death and Extinction (nine/xix/2019–i/20/2020)
• Rodarte (11/10/2018–ii/x/2019)
• Women House (3/nine/2018–5/28/2018)
• Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today (x/13/2017–1/21/2018)
• She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (four/viii/2016–vii/31/2016)
• Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Thought (12/v/2014–iv/12/2015)
• Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections (two/24/2012–7/29/2012)
• Women Who Stone: Vision, Passion, Ability (9/7/2012–1/6/2013)
• Loïs Mailou Jones : A Life in Vibrant Color (10/9/2010–1/9/2011)WACK! Fine art and the Feminist Revolution (9/21/2007–12/16/2007)
• Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women (6/30/2006–ix/24/2006)
• An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum (ii/14/ 2003 – 6/eighteen/2003)
• Places of Their Ain: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Frida Kahlo (2/eight/2002–5/12/2002)
• Julie Taymor : Playing With Fire (11/xvi/2000–2/4/2001)
• The Magic of Remedios Varo (2/10/2000–5/29/2000)
• Women to Watch (ongoing)

The Women to Watch exhibition series is a collaboration between NMWA and its national and international committees. These exhibitions, which take place every few years, feature artists from the committees' regions and focus on a specific medium or theme called by NMWA's curators.^[16]

Public programs [edit]

Wikipedia edit-a-thon held at the museum in 2014

The museum presents public programs including hands-on workshops, artist conversations, gallery talks, art history lectures, and tours.^[17]

NMWA offers arts-integration teacher grooming through its Art, Books, and Creativity (ABC) curriculum.^[18]

The museum's Women, Arts, and Social Change (WASC) initiative aims to facilitate conversations virtually social and political issues affecting women. The initiative's Fresh Talk series invites the public to converse with women in the arts as well as other fields.^[xix]

Outreach Committees [edit]

The museum created its network of national and international committees in 1984. As of 2022, there are 28 outreach committees with over 3,000 members in the U.s.a. and effectually the world.^[17]

The committees promote the museum's mission, advocate for regional women artists, and serve as NMWA ambassadors.^[17]

The committees help to present the museum's Women to Scout exhibition series which features emerging or underrepresented artists from the states and countries where committees be.

2021-2023 renovations [edit]

As of August 2021, the museum is temporarily closed as it undergoes a $66 million renovation. The museum will reopen to the public in 2023.^[7]

Operations [edit]

The museum is located at 1250 New York Avenue and H Street N.W. The closest Washington Metro stations are Metro Heart or McPherson Foursquare stations. Prior to the 2021-2023 renovation projection, the museum was open up Monday–Sabbatum 10 a.m.–5 p.yard. and Sundays noon–five p.m. Admission was $10 for adults, $viii for students and visitors 65 and over, and free for members and visitors 18 and under. Access was free to all on the first Sunday of every calendar month. The museum store shares the same hours as the museum.

See too [edit]

• House of the Temple, another Masonic Temple building on 16th Street, nearby
• New Hall Art Collection
• Women artists

References [edit]

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Annals of Celebrated Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Wilhelmina Holladay". www.arts.gov . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
3. ^ "National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Usa". Google Arts & Culture . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
4. ^ June 1, Frank J. Oterion; 2011 (2011-06-01). "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Goose Bumps in the Candy Shop". NewMusicBox . Retrieved 2022-05-02 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
5. ^ ^{a b} "National Museum of Women in the Arts Lends Drove Highlights to National Gallery of Art During Building Renovation". www.nga.gov . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
6. ^ "National Museum of Women in the Arts will close for two-year renovation". The Fine art Paper - International art news and events. 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
7. ^ ^{a b} Ables, Kelsey (July 2, 2021). "The National Museum of Women in the Arts is closing for renovation. Here'southward what to see before it does". Washington Post.
8. ^ ^{a b} Jacqueline Trescott (February 24, 2010). "National Museum of Women in the Arts to turn D.C. corridor into sculpture aisle". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved viii Feb 2011.
9. ^ Michelle Cragle (2010). "National Museum of Women in the Arts Announces Sculpture Project". Printing Heart. Niki Charitable Art Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-03-06. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
10. ^ Blake Gopnik (Apr 28, 2010). "Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Feb 2011.
11. ^ "Collection Highlights – National Museum of Women in the Arts". nmwa.org . Retrieved iv Baronial 2017.
12. ^ "Library & Athenaeum – National Museum of Women in the Arts". world wide web.nmwa.org . Retrieved 4 August 2017.
13. ^ "Library & Archives – National Museum of Women in the Arts". world wide web.nmwa.org . Retrieved iv August 2017.
14. ^ "Exhibitions – National Museum of Women in the Arts". nmwa.org . Retrieved four August 2017.
15. ^ "Exhibition History (1987–2013)" (PDF). National Museum of Women in the Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
16. ^ "'Women to Picket: Paper Routes' traveling exhibit opens at Fenix Arts". Fayetteville Flyer . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
17. ^ ^{a b c} Art museum libraries and librarianship. Joan M. Benedetti, Art Libraries Order of North America. Lanham, Maryland. 2007. ISBN978-0-8108-5918-0. OCLC 77485821. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
18. ^ "National Museum of Women in the Arts - Standing Pedagogy". Trinity Washington Academy . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .
19. ^ Cascone, Sarah (2015-09-15). "A New Push for Art Globe Gender Equality". Artnet News . Retrieved 2022-05-02 .

External links [edit]

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