MA NMWA

The Massachusetts State Committee/NMWA supports the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and works to advance women artists in Massachusetts.

[MA NMWA @MANMWA2]

These Are the 44 Best Art Museums in the U.S. Right Now #8 is ⁦@WomenInTheArts⁩ https://t.co/7m4Jln7IGs

[MA NMWA @MANMWA2]

These Are the 44 Best Art Museums in the U.S. Right Now #8 is ⁦@WomenInTheArts⁩ https://t.co/7m4Jln7IGs

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

#womenartists

[Getty @GettyMuseum]

Artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun lived a DARING life. From painting portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette to fleeing from French revolutionaries, her story is one for the books.

https://t.co/oyuP4qTOWf

[PL Henderson ♀ 🎨 @PL_Henderson1]

Western 'Women's art" is not simply a variety of skills and unique talents in every single area of the arts, it also encompasses a history of cultural denial and open antagonism.

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

"The Sacred is the here and now we reside in."
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

#womenartists

[PL Henderson ♀ 🎨 @PL_Henderson1]

Laura Knight's Enduring Expressions of British Summertime...
https://t.co/RnfrHGPHU1

[SFMOMA @SFMOMA]

As "Ruth Asawa: Retrospective" enters its last two weeks at SFMOMA, Asawa's grandson, Henry Weverka, reflects on the journey of bringing this exhibition to life.

Experience it before it closes on September 2.
#RuthAsawa #SFMOMA #SanFrancisco

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Self portrait, 1649 by Netherlands painter Michaelina Wautier, who has only recently been recognized as an outstanding Baroque artist. Her paintings were previously attributed to male artists, including her brother #WomensArt

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

In honor of Ruth Asawa, an earlier piece about her...

https://t.co/E73kx83qgr

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

During the 1930s, the US "book women" of Kentucky, aka "packsaddle librarians," delivered books to remote and isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains on horseback, riding in rain, snow or heat ...#WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Self-portrait Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1791 by Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss Neoclassical painter #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Bauhaus women, 1927
the German Bauhaus school, 1919-1933, created progressive designs, yet excluded women from most fields except weaving at first. Despite restrictions female students excelled in this area and later in others too including metalwork #WomensArt

[Christa Terry, Arts Editor @CTerryObserver]

Though the art and architecture of the fair were mostly destroyed, as was intended, its curious cultural legacy was not. @MGregoryWriter for @observer #artists #sculpture https://t.co/5mJE1nVHkv

[Mary Gregory @MGregoryWriter]

Delighted to share my latest piece for @observer with thanks to @CTerryObserver

The White Rabbits of Art
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How the White Rabbits of Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition Sculpted a Lasting Legacy https://t.co/18cvshW1j1

[MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23]

"The Conjurer" (1960) by Leonora Carrington

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Self portrait, 1885 by Berthe Morisot, trailblazer of the male-dominated French Impressionist movement #womensart

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The new book
'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores the importance of creative printmaking to women's activism, including suffrage campaigns, early Japanese feminists, women's printmaking collectives and zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 1, 1915, Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'My wife doesn't work' poster (c.1976) by See Red Women's Workshop, London. Interviewed in the new womensart book....
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers