NAWA History

NAWA Luminaries – Faith Ringgold

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 – Faith Ringgold2024-05-13T22:50:07-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – Gertrude Horsford Fiske

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 – Gertrude Horsford Fiske2024-05-13T22:54:42-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – A NAWA 135th Anniversary Exhibition at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857’s combined galleries

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 – A NAWA 135th Anniversary Exhibition at Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857’s combined galleries2024-05-13T22:56:42-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – Augusta Savage

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 – Augusta Savage2024-05-13T22:57:33-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – Berta N. Briggs, painter and writer

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 – Berta N. Briggs, painter and writer2024-05-13T23:02:09-04:00

Glad You Asked: Celebrating NAWA’s 135th Anniversary During Women’s History Month

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 [...]

Glad You Asked: Celebrating NAWA’s 135th Anniversary During Women’s History Month2024-01-30T21:21:38-05:00

NAWA Luminaries – IN CELEBRATION OF A LEGACY: THE POWER OF WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER

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 – IN CELEBRATION OF A LEGACY: THE POWER OF WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER2024-01-22T17:42:26-05:00

NAWA Luminaries – Buffie Johnson

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 – Buffie Johnson2024-05-13T23:03:12-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – Nell Blaine

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, [...]

NAWA Luminaries – Nell Blaine2024-05-13T23:04:15-04:00

NAWA Luminaries – Dorothy Dehner

NAWA Luminaries - Dorothy Dehner Nawa Luminaries is the intersection of NAWA’s Historical Research and current exhibitions around the United States highlighting celebrated NAWA members. The last blog announced the exhibition at the Southampton Arts Council, Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era: From The New York School to The Hamptons at the Southampton [...]

NAWA Luminaries – Dorothy Dehner2024-05-13T23:05:49-04:00