Gertrude Horsford Fiske NAWA Luminaries celebrates another historical member in the 135th Anniversary Exhibition at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857's combined galleries. Gertrude Horsford Fiske Gertrude Horsford Fiske was born in 1879, one of six children born into a wealthy Boston family. Educated in Boston's best schools, she was an equestrian and [...]
A National Association of Women Artists' 135th Anniversary Exhibition of works by historic NAWA members from the 19th and 20th centuries will be held at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857's combined galleries. This exhibition will be displayed at their shared space at 17 East 67th Street, Suite 1A, New York, NY, from March 21 [...]
Augusta Savage Photo: African American Registry Herstory, a comprehensive survey of work by NAWA Honorary VP Judy Chicago at the New Museum, closed on March 3, 2024. The exhibit, which spanned Chicago's sixty-year career and encompassed the artist's contributions across painting, sculpture, installations, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking, also placed [...]
We each have our origin story, the account or backstory revealing how a person or group became who they are. It shows how one started, what one went through, and why it matters. NAWA's origin story, five women artists getting together on the evening of January 31, 1889, intent on organizing an association of serious [...]
GYA: Celebrating NAWA's 135th Anniversary During Women's History Month 2024 In this momentous year, we commemorate the establishment by our five visionary founding women in New York City who aspired to be recognized as professional artists, providing them with places to exhibit their work along with the intellectual and artistic support of a [...]
On the evening of January 31, 1889, five women gathered in Grace Fitz-Randolph's studio on Washington Square in New York City. Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, Adele Frances Bedell, Anita C. Ashley, and Elizabeth S. Cheever joined their hostess with an agenda: They wanted to form a women's art club that Edith Prellwitz hoped would be [...]
Meet the Artist/Author Sandra Bertrand Some of our NAWA Signature Artists are also recognized authors who have published their work in books, articles, and papers both online, and offline. Their writing is as diverse as their artwork, covering fiction, non-fiction, academic research, poetry, children’s books and more. A standard set of questions has [...]
NAWA Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current exhibitions around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members, brings you a short biography of Buffie Johnson. Johnson was one of the five NAWA members in the Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era: From The New York School to The Hamptons at the [...]
Meet the Artist/Author Jen Haefeli Some of our NAWA Signature Artists are also recognized authors who have published their work in books, articles, and papers both online, and offline. Their writing is as diverse as their artwork, covering fiction, non-fiction, academic research, poetry, children’s books and more. A standard set of questions has [...]
Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current exhibitions around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. The exhibition at the Southampton Arts Council, Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era: From The New York School to The Hamptons at the Southampton Arts Center in Southampton, New York closed on December 17, [...]
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