Exhibitions
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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by WomenMay 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025Renwick Gallery
Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.
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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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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. JacksonApril 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025African Art Museum
In this exhibition, Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.
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Janet Echelman's 1.8 RenwickSeptember 18, 2020 – OngoingRenwick Gallery
Echelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.
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