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
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hours may change; visitors should check the museum’s Plan Your Visit information before attending.
Venue: National Museum of Women in the Arts
Location: Great Hall, mezzanine, and third floor exhibition galleries
Themes: Photo Credit examines pioneers and innovators in photography. Seeing Red considers the formal, realistic, and symbolic meanings of the color red. Objectified presents historical and contemporary still lifes and related objects. Home, Maker explores women’s changing roles in domestic life and their growing agency as makers. No Shrinking Violet focuses on purple as a color of fashion, creativity, innovation, and individual expression. Fiber Optics traces the history of textile work, much of it traditionally made by women, and its continued use by contemporary artists. Elemental considers earth, water, fire, and air as artistic materials and forces of life, purification, and renewal. Land Marks explores landscapes as expressions of cultural beliefs, memories, emotions, and ideology. Heavyweight challenges the assumption that women artists work on a small or delicate scale.
Related resources: Scalable digital versions of the third-floor, collection gallery, Rotunda, Great Hall, mezzanine, and stairwell labels are available for use during or after a visit. An audio guide, the “Remix Mix Tape,” features highlights from the museum’s collection.
Sponsors: The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and sponsored by Lugano Diamonds. Additional support comes 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.
Tickets: Price not available