NAWA history

NAWA Honorary VP Linda Stein is in the news in Flint, Michigan; New York; and Dallas, Texas! Profile Landscape 438.081, 1976 Linda Stein, a feminist artist, activist, educator and writer, is the Founding President of the non-profit Have Art Will Travel Inc. for Courageous Kindness, addressing bullying and diversity. The organization manages the traveling exhibition [...]

Graham Shay 1857, at 17 East 67th Street in New York, is exhibiting A Curated Selection of Twentieth Century American Paintings &Sculpture through August 30, 2024. Among the esteemed artists in the show are four historical members of NAWA: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Janet Scudder, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Anna Walinska. These artists have significantly contributed to the twentieth-century American [...]

 Graham Shay 1857, at 17 East 67th Street in New York, is exhibiting A Curated Selection of Twentieth Century American Paintings &Sculpture through August 30, 2024. Among the esteemed artists in the show are four historical members of NAWA: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Janet Scudder, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Anna Walinska. These artists have significantly contributed to the twentieth-century American [...]

Graham Shay 1857, at 17 East 67th Street in New York, is exhibiting A Curated Selection of Twentieth Century American Paintings &Sculpture through August 30, 2024. Among the esteemed artists in the show are four historical members of NAWA: Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Janet Scudder, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Anna Walinska. These artists have significantly contributed [...]

Audrey Flack at the Southampton Arts Center on November 12, 2023. Photo by James F Dawson We at NAWA mourn the passing of Audrey Flack, a NAWA Honorary VP and vocal advocate for women artists. Flack, a critically acclaimed painter and sculptor who may be best known for her contribution to the Photorealism [...]

Judith K. Brodsky keynote speaker at the 2024 NAWA Luncheon. Photo: Mary Ahern A NAWA Annual Luncheon with guest speaker and Honorary Vice President Judith K. Brodsky. It was difficult tearing myself away from my studio and writing practices to go into the city to make the hour-long journey for the NAWA luncheon, [...]

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, 2024, features this week's Luminary, Dorothy Eaton. Dorothy Eaton, from the 1916 yearbook of Smith College. Public Domain Dorothy Eaton Born in 1893 in [...]

National Arts Club Honors Medal of Honor Recipient Faith Ringgold American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, author, educator, and organizer perhaps best known for her quilts, Faith Ringgold was one of her generation's most influential cultural figures. Faith drew from personal autobiography and collective histories for sixty years to document her life [...]

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 [...]