Remix: The Collection
Chronological collection installations tacitly prioritize traditional art mediums and white European and American artists. *Remix* continues to reject outmoded and gender-based art hierarchies.
Collection galleries throughout NMWA’s building present a joyful and provocative combination of works spanning six continents and six centuries that emphasizes the illimitable vision of women artists worldwide through themes:
Photo Credit showcases pioneers of the photographic medium and visionaries who continue to expand photography’s boundaries.
Seeing Red illustrates how artists throughout the centuries have wielded the color red with its myriad associations for formal, realistic, and symbolic purposes.
Objectified presents historical and contemporary still lifes and related objects by women who push boundaries and preserve traditions.
Home, Maker spotlights women’s shifting roles in domestic life and celebrates their ever-growing agency as makers.
No Shrinking Violet demonstrates artists’ use of purple in bold and personal expressions of fashion, creativity, innovation, and individualism.
Fiber Optics highlights the history of textile work predominantly produced by women and focuses on how contemporary artists use these techniques in their practices.
Elemental features artists who share their clear view of earth, water, fire, and air as creative tools and unceasing forces of life, purification, and rebirth.
Land Marks proves that landscapes reflect and define cultural beliefs and values, embody artists’ memories and emotions, or convey ideology, sometimes in combination.
Heavyweight confounds expectations that women work on a smaller, more delicate scale than their male counterparts.
When: October 21, 2023, through January 16, 2028
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours may change; visitors are advised to check the museum’s Plan Your Visit page for current information.
Venue: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Location: Great Hall, mezzanine, and third floor
Tickets: Price not available
Themes: Photo Credit focuses on pioneers and innovators in photography. Seeing Red explores the formal, realistic, and symbolic uses of red. Objectified brings together historical and contemporary still lifes and related objects. Home, Maker considers women’s changing roles in domestic life and their agency as makers. No Shrinking Violet examines purple as a vehicle for fashion, creativity, innovation, and individual identity. Fiber Optics traces textile work historically associated with women while emphasizing contemporary textile practices. Elemental considers earth, water, fire, and air as creative materials and forces of life, purification, and renewal. Land Marks examines landscapes as expressions of cultural values, memory, emotion, and ideology. Heavyweight challenges the assumption that women work on a small or delicate scale.
Featured Works: The page highlights Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s *Indian, Indio, Indigenous* (1992), Barbara Hepworth’s *Figure (Merryn)* (1962), Niki de Saint Phalle’s *Pregnant Nana* (1995), Lavinia Fontana’s *Marriage Portrait of a Bolognese Noblewoman (Livia de’ Medici Bandini?)* (circa 1589), and Loïs Mailou Jones’s *Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées* (1949).
Visitor Resources: Scalable digital gallery labels are available for the third-floor galleries, as well as for the Rotunda, Great Hall, mezzanine, and stairwell. Visitors can also use the museum’s *Remix Mix Tape* audio guide to explore collection highlights throughout the museum.
Accessibility: The digital gallery labels provide an easy-to-read, scalable format that can be used while exploring the galleries or after a visit.
Organization and Support: The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It is sponsored by Lugano Diamonds, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sue J. Henry and Carter G. Phillips Exhibition Fund, and the Clara M. Lovett Emerging Artists Fund.