NAWA Luminaries

Brookgreen Gardens is the site of the NAWA South Carolina Chapter's exhibition, Brookgreen Inspires, Women Create, from May 3-July 20, 2025. The sculptures of 39 historical members are on view in addition to the 70 artworks of current South Carolina members. Brookgreen Gardens is a renowned sculpture garden located south of Murrell's Inlet, SC, [...]

Ethel Schwabacher (ca. 1920s). Courtesy Berry Campbell, New York. by Susan M. Rostan, MFA. EdD. NAWA Historian "..art was always a question of bringing near-nothingness to something. Out of a blank piece of paper, out of a few insignificant materials and the thought of the artist came productions, productions that awoke thoughts [...]

Joyce Kozloff NAWA woman in the news: Joyce Kozloff I want to take this moment to mention two NAWA artists in the news in the last days of 2024. The first is NAWA HVP Joyce Kozloff. At 81, she is among the fifteen women artists aged between 42 and 89 who have [...]

Louise Nevelson, 1976 , photo by Lynn Gilbert "I'm not a feminist. I'm an artist who happens to be a woman." 1 The Art Students League currently exhibits Women in Construction in their Phyllis Harris Mason Gallery at 215 West 57th Street in New York. The thematic group show explores how 35 [...]

Art Students League, New York, NY The Art Students League currently exhibits Women in Construction in their Phyllis Harris Mason Gallery at 215 West 57th Street in New York. The thematic group show explores how 35 women-identifying artists literally and figuratively construct their identities through their artworks. The exhibition includes the following 15 [...]

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 [...]