Image: Edith Mitchill Prellwitz – a NAWA founder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), is pleased to be presenting in conjunction with the 135th Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition:
A panel of distinguished Art Historians discussing,
“NAWA: Illuminating Women’s Art for 135 Years”
6:30 PM Meet and Greet
7 PM Panel Presentation
Panelists Include:
Judith K. Brodsky, a NAWA Honorary Vice President, is an activist, artist, curator, writer, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at Rutgers University. She is the founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, now known as the Brodsky Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Established in 1986, the Brodsky Center is renowned for its pioneering mission to provide opportunities for women-identified, BIPOC, and non-binary artists.
Dr. Ferris Olin, a NAWA Honorary Vice President, is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University, where she was the co-founder and co-director, along with Judith K. Brodsky, of Rutgers Institute for Women in the Arts and The Feminist Art Project. Olin also established the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists at Rutgers – a research center focused on documenting women’s leadership in the public arena, collecting primary sources, and creating scholarly resources using emerging technologies.
Kate Van Riper is the Archivist for the Women Artists Collections for Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries, her work seeks to preserve and uplift the histories of marginalized women artists that have been historically erased, forgotten, and otherwise excluded from many major collections.
Maria Nevelson founded a non-profit 501(c)(3) in 2005 to educate and celebrate her grandmother’s art and life, the renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson. She is undertaking the monumental task of assembling a catalogue raisonné of her grandmother’s prolific body of work, with the aim of preserving Nevelson’s legacy for generations to come.
Rosina Rubin founded Atelier Anna Walinska to catalog and exhibit the works of her late aunt, the renowned painter Anna Walinska (1906-1997). She has curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and the Czech Republic, ensuring that Walinska’s artworks are included in significant public collections. Additionally, Rosina collaborated with the Smithsonian Archives of American Art to digitize Walinska’s papers and other biographical materials, making them fully accessible online for researchers.