Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish WomenMarch 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art Museum
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking BackSeptember 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art Museum
This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory as it is mediated through performance, photography, or video.
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Composing Color: Paintings by Alma ThomasSeptember 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art Museum
This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.
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Shelley Niro: 500 Year ItchMay 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New York
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.
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To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024Anacostia Community Museum
Explore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.
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Escaramuza DressSeptember 17, 2021 – January 4, 2022American History Museum
An escaramuza charra dress worn by Veronica Davila is on view, representing the only female event in the Mexican charrería.
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Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022American Art Museum
Of the more than seventy projects funded by the NEA, the East Baltimore Survey was unique for having been conceived, led, and carried out by women photographers.
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Girlhood (It's Complicated)October 9, 2020 – January 2, 2023American History Museum
Through its rich collections and new acquisitions, the museum explores how girls have been on the front lines of social and cultural change.
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Creating Icons: How We Remember Women's SuffrageMarch 6, 2020 – January 2, 2022American History Museum
This exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment recognizing women’s right to vote.
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Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is PrologueMarch 15, 2019 – September 2, 2019American Art Museum
Internationally acclaimed artist Tiffany Chung is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals.
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All Work and No Pay: A History of Women's Invisible LaborMarch 4, 2019 – May 30, 2022American History Museum
Break rooms across America hold signs that read: “Your mother doesn’t work here.” All Work and No Pay examines the implied expectation that women will take care of the housework.
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The Case of Luisa MorenoJuly 20, 2018 – April 30, 2019American History Museum
The display features objects representing Moreno’s work as a civil rights activist and labor organizer with union pins as well as her shawl and a pamphlet to rally national attention and halt Moreno’s deportation.
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Special Olympics at 50July 10, 2018 – October 17, 2021American History Museum
Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first International Special Olympics Games through the stories of four accomplished athletes who participated in them.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographsApril 6, 2018 – January 27, 2019American Art Museum
This exhibition traces the history of A box of ten photographs between 1969 and 1973, telling the crucial story of the portfolio that established the foundation for Arbus’s posthumous career.
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Uniformed Women in the Great WarApril 6, 2017 – April 28, 2019American History Museum
Selection of World War I uniforms on display highlighting the varied roles of uniformed women that allowed them to express their patriotism.
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The First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald at 100April 1, 2017 – July 15, 2018American History Museum
Highlighting Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), one of the greatest American singers.
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Romaine BrooksJune 17, 2016 – October 2, 2016American Art Museum
This exhibition brings together 50 paintings and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection.
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A Room of Her Own: My Mother's Altar, an installation by Sandra CisnerosOctober 31, 2014 – September 7, 2015American History Museum
Acclaimed author Sandra Cisneros has created an installation in the tradition of "Dia de Muertos" to honor her mother, Elvira Cordero Cisneros.
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Marian Anderson: Artist and SymbolApril 8, 2014 – November 11, 2014American History Museum
See Marian Anderson's orange-and-black velvet ensemble, which she wore during her historic Easter Sunday performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9,1939.
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Camilla's PurseJanuary 24, 2014 – May 4, 2014American History Museum
See what Holocaust survivor Camilla (Mia) Klaber Gottlieb carried in her purse to preserve her memories before, during, and after World War II.
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