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From the Director WELCOME WELCOME TO A NEW SEASON OF Women, Arts, and Social Change (WASC). In 2015, this initiative began with the question “Can we change it?,” examining if women artists working alongside women leaders in other disciplines could truly advance social change. We quickly realized that the answer was yes—our speakers were enacting change on a wide, deep, and very human scale. Since then, we’ve asked ourselves “How can we change it?,” a question we must continuously consider as we work to create a more just and equitable world. Over the past five years, we’ve built a community of 10,000 participants who vary by age, occupation, culture, and outlook. We’ve welcomed 80 engaging speakers and more than 40 partnering organizations, all dedicated to championing women The Women, Arts, and artists. Through our Sunday Suppers and Catalyst Social Change public cocktail hours, we’ve come together to share new programs initiative is ideas, approaches, and methods to create positive made possible through leadership gifts from change. Thank you for your dedication to our Denise Littlefield Sobel, programs and our community. the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, the Revada For our sixth season, we are dedicated to examining Foundation of the the ways in which food and art work together to Logan Family, and the empower women and create dynamic shifts in Susan and Jim Swartz domestic, social, cultural, and political spaces. Public Programs Fund. We invite you to join us and add your voice to the Additional funding is important conversations that are to come. provided by the Bernstein THANK YOU Family Foundation. This This season our lineup will be offered entirely project is supported online. We are committed to bringing you dynamic in part by the National programs safely. The museum is more than a Endowment for the Arts. building, it is a community of all of you. Susan Fisher Sterling Cover Photo by Sancha McBurnie
ECLAMATION F R E C L A M AT I O N Recipes • Remedies • Rituals From Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, WASC presents RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals, Recipes, Remedies, a year-long season of programming that examines the relationships between food, art, and women. The project consists of talks, workshops, and an interactive exhibition that explore how traditionally feminine roles in the family, home, and community powerfully intersect with ethnic and ancestral identities. Food, the universal component of culture, serves as an intergenerational source of influence, healing, and solidarity. Through cooking, curatives, and Rituals and ceremonies, artists use specific ingredients to center principles of culture and family, address the impacts of immigration and assimilation, and explore conventionally feminine spaces and positions of power. Connecting audiences with artists who explore the purpose and power of food, RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals reveals vital connections between identity, race, memory, gender, and wellness. R EC L A M AT I O N Photo by Kevin Allen
Photo by Melani N. Douglass RECLAMATION Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals O C T OBER 24, 20 20 – JA NUA RY 3, 2020 T ER E SA L OZ A N O L ON G GA L L ERY A ND ONL INE RECLAMATION is an evolving exhibition and ingredient archive that examines food as a creative medium for visual art and a connective tool for exploring intergenerational and intercultural experiences. Focusing on ingredients used in cooking, curatives, and ceremonies, the interactive installation resembles an apothecary cabinet. Its innovative design also centers around a kitchen table, the central domestic object for gatherings of family and friends. Museum visitors will leave their mark on the exhibition by sharing recipes, anecdotes, and reflections related to food through a digital ingredient database. The communal nature of nourishing and curing the body makes food and herbs particularly potent artistic mediums. In this exhibition, the featured artist and viewers wil use those materials to honor women’s roles in the practices and traditions surrounding food. Explore the exhibition virtually, and contribute your own recipes for foods, home EXHIBITION remedies, and rituals online at nmwa.org. You can also safely visit the exhibition at the museum. ECLAMATION Recipes • Remedies • Rituals
2020 RIGHTING THE BAL ANCE— CULINARY F R E S H TA L K JUSTICE S UNDAY, SEP T EMBER 13, 2020 Courtesy of Angel Gregorio 4 :3 0 – 6 P.M . ONL INE Join us for an online conversation about the gender inequity that pervades the culinary industry. Angel Gregorio, founder of The Spice Suite spice bar, Photo by Hanna Burton and Bustle joins Celeste Beatty, the first black female brewery owner in America, Jenny Dorsey, interdisciplinary visual artist and professional chef, and Ashley Rose Young, historian of the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, to explore how creativity, ingenuity, and networking can create opportunities Courtesy of Celeste Beatty to level the field. R EG I S T E R at nmwa.org/whats-on/calendar Join Photo by the National Museum US T I C K E T S are $10 general; of American History $5 members, seniors, students.
2020 MakeHER Mart S UNDAY, SEP T EMBER 13, 2020 10 A .M. – 4 P.M. ONL INE R EG I S T E R at nmwa.org/whats-on/ This year’s MakeHER Mart will be a free virtual calendar marketplace featuring local women artists, makers, designers, and, for the first time, entrepreneurs in the food industry. Join us online to support local businesses, shop small, and champion female entrepreneurs. More details to be announced. Join Photo by Kevin Allen M a ke H E R M A R T US ONLINE
2020 MakeHER M a ke H E R S U M M I T W O R K S H O P S Summit Workshops MONDAY, SEP T EMBER 14 , 2020 10 A .M . – 3 P.M. ONL INE R EG I S T E R at nmwa.org/whats-on/ Join us online for a day of workshops that offer calendar practical tips and resource sharing for creative entrepreneurs at all levels, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants interested in the culinary arts and creative economy can participate in a law clinic and attend workshops on branding and business development from JoinONLINE speakers Riche Holmes Grant, Angel Gregorio, and Layla Nielsen. US Photo by Sancha McBurnie
PLACE & POWER SUNDAY, N OV EMBER 15, 2020 4 :3 0 – 6 P.M . ONL INE R EG I S T E R at To what degree are identities shaped by food nmwa.org/whats-on/ exchanges—from cultivation and harvest to calendar/ preparation and consumption? In this program, F R E S H TA L K culinary historian Laura Shapiro, interdisciplinary artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and food rights activist Ianne Fields Stewart will discuss questions of global food access, gender, class, and labor. T I C K E T S are $10 general; $5 members, seniors, students. Photo by Ellen Warner Courtesy of Ianne Fields Stewart Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
THE ART of HEALING S UNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021 T IME: T BA R EG I S T E R at Across time and place, the kitchen exists not only F R E S H TA L K nmwa.org/whats-on/ as a place for bodily nourishment, but also as a calendar laboratory for healing and a conference room for restorative justice. This conversation will explore the ways that female caretakers have contributed to traditional medicine, how mental and physical pain can be connected, and whether systemic racism and cultural repression create a specific need for marginalized groups to engage in acts of wellness and healing. Photo by Kevin Allen
GET Fresh Photo by Sancha McBurnie U USUA L LY W E BR ING TOGE T HER Fresh F R E S H TA L K Talk attendees for conversation during Sunday Supper, a communal meal served family-style, and Catalyst, a cocktail hour with a topic and a twist. This season, with all programs online, we remain committed to creating that space for connection—albeit digitally. Each Fresh Talk program will include breakout rooms so that participants can meet other attendees and talk about the evening’s topic. JO IN T HE C ON V ERSAT ION Before, during, and after the program, we invite you to add your voice to the conversation @WomenInTheArts using #FreshTalk4Change. WAT CH W HEN YOU WA N T Programs are live-streamed and recorded so you can watch live or on-demand at nmwa.org/whats-on/signature-programs/ women-arts-social-change/videos.
FEEDBACK Here’s what our network of champions for women in the arts had to say about last season’s programming: I loved the conversation...about feminism and climate change and the way [they] intersect. It was amazing to watch Judy [Chicago] and Martha [Nussbaum] interact with each other. I just came away feeling so inspired.” —SAR AH BOONIE I thought the talk was fantastic. It was a very unconventional combination of people. The way that each of these individuals explained what their hotels do to incorporate art and culture and community into their business models. The way that each of these individuals explained what their hotels do to incorporate art, culture, and community into their business models was [great].” —AMANDA SEIGER I was very impressed with the event. I really thought that the women on the panel were outstanding in their comments and beliefs. F R E S H TA L K F E E D B AC K I really hope that their message to get out and vote gets across to a lot of women in our world... voting helps all of us, Photo by Sancha McBurnie not just some of us.” — GWEN DORSEY
INTRODUCING The Tea Photo by Sancha McBurnie F IRS T F R IDAY In this new online performance series, women OF T HE M ON T H musicians perform original work via live-stream on the museum’s social media channels and website. All 12–1 P.M . sessions include a short interview, conducted over a cup of tea, that explores the artist’s creative process. F R E E . No reservations required. For additional information on The Tea, visit the online calendar: nmwa.org/whats-on/calendar Tamika Love Jones F R IDAY, SEP T EMBER 4 , 2020 TA L K Tamika Love Jones is a versatile vocalist, actress, mother of two, and a sought-after teaching artist in Washington, D.C. She has released three H E STHE A albums of original music incorporating soul, hip hop, jazz, funk, blues and classical influences. Jones’s dramatic stage presence, acrobatic vocals, and FR fluidity between genres has put her in a class of her own. T
Tashera THE TEA F R IDAY, O C T OBER 2 , 2020 Tashera was born and raised in the heart of Baltimore City. Though many associate Baltimore with Old Bay, violence, and The Wire, Tashera chooses to see the city as a place full of talented and creative minds, which led to her to pursue music. After discovering her love for harmony and songwriting, Tashera released the singles “Fall Alone” (2018) and “Get Up” (2019). Heidi Martin F R IDAY, N OV EMBER 6, 20 20 A vocal music major in jazz under the direction of Professor Calvin Jones at the University of the District of Columbia, Martin was a finalist in the London International Vocalist Competition and has written, directed, and produced music programs for D.C. Public Schools and Montgomery County Public Schools. She was contributing composer for the PBS documentary Revolution ’67 by Jerome and Marylou Bongiorno. She has released two albums: Hide (2005) and See Hear, Love… (2011). VeVe Marley F R IDAY, DECEMBER 4 , 2020 VeVe Marley is a D.C.-based singer/songwriter and guitarist whose music blends elements of folk, Afrobeat, R&B, and hip hop to create dreamy, soulful vibes while speaking on issues of identity, spirituality, racism, and the Black experience. Marley has performed and recorded since 2013. Her most recent project, with her band VeVe and Tha Rebels is titled The EP.
Photo by Sancha McBurnie Cultural CAPITAL The Women, Arts, and Social Change initiative also features Cultural Capital programs, collaborative partnerships with local organizations that build PA S T PA R T N E R S H I P S community and foster new audiences. These partnerships expand the conversation on women and the arts as catalysts for change. For more information and to register for upcoming Cultural Capital programs visit: nmwa.org/visit/calendar.
C U LT U R A L C A P I TA L OC T OBER 2020 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital ONL INE A proud partner since 2013, NMWA will host a film highlighting women and the environment. Title to be announced. The film link will be sent out via our WASC e-news. Sign up at nmwa.org. DECEMBER 1 1 , 2020 NMWA Book Club F R IDAY, 12–1 P.M. Join us for a deep dive into Nell Painter’s book Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over (2018). This program, presented by WASC in partnership with the museum’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, will explore the ambition and inspiration that drove a lauded scholar to start over and pursue her creative goals. Free. Reserve online. SP R IN G 20 21 PEN/Faulkner Intersections The PEN/Faulkner Foundation celebrates literature and fosters connections between readers and writers to enrich and inspire both individuals and communities. Join us for a conversation highlighting intersections in literature. Prices and date to be announced.
M A RCH 20, 2021 C U LT U R A L C A P I TA L Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital A proud partner since 2013, NMWA will host a second film this season highlighting women and the environment. Title to be announced. Free. Reserve online. We’ve gathered a broad collection of digital resources at our new online hub, NMWA @ Home, so you can stay connected to the museum and our mission to champion women artists, right where you are! NMWA @ Home Be inspired by great women artists and advocate for gender equity in the arts from home. N M WA @ H O M E
Explore N M WA @ H O M E • Art collection highlights featuring over 200 works of art by women artists searchable by name, time, period, medium, and theme • Artist profiles covering important women artists Play from the past and present • Online exhibitions including Graciela Iturbide’s • Coloring books Mexico, Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits, • Virtual and Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age #5WomenArtists scavenger hunt Read • Broad Strokes blog featuring Art Fix Fridays, artist interviews, and in-depth explorations of women artists and their work. • Women in the Arts magazine Learn • See For Yourself art cards • Research guides by the Library and Research Center Watch • Arts, Books, and Creativity learning curriculum • Fresh Talk programs and Fresh Take 1-minute interviews • Story Time with Women in the Arts Listen • Podcasts about women artists …and more! Image: Laure Tixier, Plaid Houses (Maquettes): Brown Usha Hut, Pink Tower, Turquoise Blue Colonial House (Barbados), Orange Breton House, 2005–11; Wool, felt, and thread, dimensions variable; NMWA, Gift of Les Amis du NMWA, Paris, France; © Laure Tixier; Photo by Pharoah Marsan.
Join UsAS A MEMBER TODAY Champion Wom THROUGH TH H MU SEUM elp us advocate for women in and through A DMI S SION the arts! Members support our exhibitions, education programs, outreach, publications, $10 GENER AL ADMISSION and so much more. Members enjoy special benefits including free admission all year long, invitations to $8 exclusive events, and a subscription to the Women A D U LT S 6 5 + AND STUDENTS in the Arts magazine. FREE FOR MEMBERS All members enjoy: A N D YO U T H 1 8 A N D UNDER • Unlimited FREE admission to the museum, including special exhibitions Reservations required: • Exclusive events, including Member Preview Days nmwa.org/tickets before exhibition openings • Women in the Arts magazine, published three times a year • Member e-news • Discounts in the Museum Shop: 10% daily and 20% on Member Preview Days • Discounts in the Mezzanine Café • Discounts on museum events and programs W HER E Franklin 1250 New York Avenue, NW McPherson Square Square I St. Washington, DC 20005 16th St. e. H St. Av Lorem ipsum rk Yo H St. 202-787-5000 w Ne 17th St. Lafayette Square 13th St. 12th St. freshtalk@nmwa.org CHAMPION Pennsylvania Ave. G St. nmwa.org Metro 15th St. 14th St. Center The White F St. House @WomenInTheArts Pen E St. E St. nsy lva nia Ave . The Ellipse TO MALL MUSEUMS
Women, Arts, and Social Change (WASC) is a bold public programs platform that highlights the power of women and the arts as catalysts for men change. Programs convene women from a range of disciplines whose socially conscious ideas are reshaping lives and economies, engaging HE ARTS communities, and empowering women. WASC is a unique forum for for artists and leading innovators to engage audiences in creative conversations about art, design, gender, equity, the environment, identity, education, health, social and economic opportunity, and more. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. With its collections, exhibitions, programs, and online content, the museum inspires dynamic exchanges about art and ideas. NMWA advocates for better representation of women artists and serves as a vital center for thought leadership, community engagement, and social change. NMWA addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to light important women artists of the past while promoting great women artists working PROGR AMMING today. The collections highlight painting, sculpture, photography, and video by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, Shirin Neshat, Faith Ringgold, Pipilotti Rist, Amy Sherald, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun. Back Cover Photo by Melani N. Douglass
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