NAWA History

NAWA Luminaries - Dorothy Eaton NAWA Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA's Historical Research and current events around the United States, highlighting celebrated NAWA members. Our 135th Anniversary Exhibition at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857 combined Galleries at 17 East 67th Street, Suite 1A, New York, NY, from March 21 – May 31, [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) NAWA Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. National Arts Club Honors Medal of Honor Recipient Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, educator, and organizer perhaps best [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Gertrude Horsford Fiske Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. 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 [...]

NAWA Luminaries - A National Association of Women Artists' 135th Anniversary Exhibition of works by historic NAWA members from the 19th and 20th centuries  at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857's combined galleries Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Augusta Savage Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. Augusta Christine Savage Augusta Savage Photo: African American Registry Herstory, a comprehensive survey of work by NAWA Honorary VP Judy Chicago at the New Museum, closed [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Berta N. Briggs, painter and writer Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. We each have our origin story, the account or backstory revealing how a person or group became who they are. It shows how one [...]

NAWA Luminaries - IN CELEBRATION OF A LEGACY: THE POWER OF WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current events around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. On the evening of January 31, 1889, five women gathered in Grace Fitz-Randolph's studio on Washington Square in New [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Buffie Johnson 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 [...]

NAWA Luminaries - Nell Blaine 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, [...]