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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Introducing NAWA Heroines: Audrey Flack Audrey Flack at the Southampton Arts Center on November 12, 2023. Photo by James F Dawson Publicized as "a captivating talk and movie" featuring Audrey Flack, a "pioneering artist whose work has left an indelible mark on the art world", it was so much more for [...]
Glad You Asked! Who Writes the NAWA NOW Magazine? The latest edition of the NAWA Now Magazine has now been published and is out in the world for everyone to read and enjoy. This is the link to the Autumn 2023 issue. The quality of the writing is so high that many wonder [...]
Did You Know... Edith Mitchill Prellwitz at The Met. Edith Mitchell Prellwitz, The Elevated, oil on canvas, 1888 Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, one of NAWA's founders, is currently in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. You can visit the Met show now through October 29, 2023 in-person or [...]
The National Association of Women Artists has a Wikipedia presence which you see here. In the Wikipedia post, you can begin to read about some of the history of NAWA from its founding in 1889. Where you will also read that NAWA has changed its name a few times over the years. From 1889 until [...]
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