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Tour of the National Museum of Women in the Arts with Ginny Treanor & Orin Zahra
November 30, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Come join us to tour the reopened National Museum of Women in the Arts! NMWA is the first museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. NMWA undertook a top-to-bottom renovation from 2021 to 2023. The building’s first full renovation since 1987, this restoration project honors the structure’s history while improving its interior spaces, mechanical systems, and exterior envelope. We are very fortunate to have a curator-led tour with Senior Curator Ginny Treanor, and Associate Curator Orin Zahra!
Current exhibitions include “The Sky’s the Limit,” showcasing never-before-exhibited contemporary sculptures that dangle from the ceiling, cascade down walls, and extend far beyond their footprint on the gallery floor: recent acquisitions and never-before-exhibited works include Sonya Clark, Beatriz Milhazes, Cornelia Parker, Mariah Robertson, Shinique Smith, and Joana Vasconcelos. “Remix: The Collection,” showcases familiar collection favorites as well as never-before-exhibited recent acquisitions: Remix continues to reject outmoded and gender-based art hierarchies.
Read Abigail Tracy’s recent article in Vanity Fair: “The National Museum of Women in the Arts Just Got a $68 Million Overhaul.“
Please review NMWA visitor health, safety, and accessibility information before your visit!
Admission:
- ArtTable Members – $10
- Member Guests – $20
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Thank you to Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.
Orin Zahra is the Associate Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Zahra earned her doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis in nineteenth-century French art, with a secondary field in modern and contemporary South Asia. Recent writing credits include contributions to major survey texts Great Women Painters (2022), Latin American Artists (2023), and Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (2024), published by Phaidon Press. At NMWA, Zahra has focused on issues of gender, race relations, and cross-cultural exchanges in modern and contemporary art. Curated solo and group exhibitions including Hung Liu In Print (2018), Ambreen Butt: Mark My Words (2019), Live Dangerously (2019), Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 (2020), Hung Liu: Making History (2023), and the forthcoming New Worlds—Women to Watch 2024.
Virginia (Ginny) Treanor, Ph.D. serves as Senior Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts Treanor is the Senior Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. and holds a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, which she earned at the University of Maryland. Treanor has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, among other institutions. During her time at NMWA, Treanor has curated numerous contemporary exhibitions, including four installments of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series: Organic Matters (2015), Heavy Metal (2018), Paper Routes
(2020), and New Worlds (2024).
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