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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¡De última hora!: Latinas Report Breaking NewsSeptember 15, 2023 – 2025American History Museum
Working in the fast-paced, ever-changing environment of broadcast news, these women shaped and shape the narrative for major historical events.
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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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We Belong Here: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Title IXJune 23, 2022 – IndefinitelyAmerican History Museum
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the federal legislation that unintentionally helped bring equality to sports, this 30-foot display case illuminates three athletes’ stories.
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Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social ChangeJune 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025American History Museum
Music HerStory explores the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers through unique media collections from the Smithsonian.
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Picturing Women InventorsMay 21, 2021 – OngoingAmerican History Museum
Featuring stories of contemporary and historic women, this display of photos and graphics is dominated by lively, larger-than-life images of female inventors.
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The Only One in the Room: Women Achievers in Business and the Cost of SuccessNovember 20, 2020 – TBAAmerican History Museum
This display features the stories of eight strong women who made it to the top.
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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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The First LadiesNovember 19, 2011 – IndefinitelyAmerican History Museum
Learn how first ladies have shaped the role of first lady as the role of women in society evolved.
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