Exhibitions
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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025Renwick GalleryLearn 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 Women
March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art MuseumExplore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
September 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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 Thomas
September 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
July 14, 2023 – OngoingHirshhornWheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.
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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025African Art MuseumIn 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 Renwick
September 18, 2020 – OngoingRenwick GalleryEchelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.