YEAR AT A GLANCE
“Deeply thankful for the existence of this museum. I feel so empowered as a woman.” —visitor
September 2019 Artist Judy Chicago debuts her latest body of work, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction. In tandem with the exhibition, NMWA releases Judy Chicago: New Views, the first major monograph on the artist in nearly twenty years, and features the artist in a Fresh Talk.
November 2019 The Women, Arts, and Social Change initiative hosts three sold-out, debut performances of 19: The Musical, a retelling of the story of Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Inez Milholland, and the other suffragists who fought to get women the right to vote.
February 2020 Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico opens. The landmark exhibition, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents more than 140 photographs from the artist’s prolific five-decade-long career that tell a visual story of Mexico since the late 1960s. Iturbide (pictured left at NMWA with a blowup of her work) gives an artist’s talk at the Mexican Cultural Institute. 4 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
