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The National Museum of Women in the Arts has over 16,000 members and devoted supporters from 50 states in the U.S. and 22 countries.
To enhance outreach to its members and others, NMWA created a unique network of national and international committees, auxiliary volunteer organizations that support the goals of the museum in their respective cities, states, regions, or countries. The program currently includes 18 committees: 10 in the United States and 8 abroad.
The committees, such as Les Amis du NMWA in Paris, host significant programs that promote women artists, offer new educational experiences, and broaden the museum’s membership. Its members serve as ambassadors for the museum, by promoting its mission, building relationships with other cultural institutions, and extending NMWA’s visibility around the world.
Les Amis du NMWA is part of the museum’s growing international network of outreach committees. It was first created, under the 1901 law, in 2002 and restarted at the end of 2009. Its objective is to promote the museum’s mission of recognizing women’s contributions to the arts, both past and present.
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Located in an historic building two blocks from the White House, in the heart of Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the achievements of women in the visual, performing and literary arts and educating the public about their accomplishments.
As a private not-for profit organization, NMWA seeks equity through excellence in the arts. The collection includes 4500 works from the 16th century to the present created by over 1000 women artists. Exhibitions feature works from museums and collections around the world, including projects such as An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum, Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers, Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, Mary Cassatt: Family and Friends, and The New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Niki de Saint Phalle.
Education is at the core of NMWA’s mission, with programs that benefit people of all ages, including the innovative Art Books and Creativity and Teachers Connect on-line initiatives as well as Women in the Arts magazine. NMWA’s Library and Research Center is the foremost repository of information on art by women and houses books, catalogues and more than 18,000 files on women artists from around the world available via the CLARA online database.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts has over 16,000 members in 50 states in the United States as well as in 22 countries. It has created a network of national and international committees, such as Les Amis du NMWA, which act as “ambassadors” for the museum and support its mission. Today there are 18 committees, of which 10 are in the US, and 8 outside of the US. For more information about the museum’s other committees, click here.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Washington, D.C. 20005, U.S.A.
Téléphone : 202-783-5000
NMWA and France
French women artists occupy an important place in the permanent collection of the museum. Artists represented include Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guillard, Marguerite Gérard, Rosa Bonheur, Suzanne Valadon, Camille Claudel… and our “Women to Watch” of 2013 and 2015, Laure Tixier and Françoise Pétrovitch . Mrs Holladay, the museum’s founder, was decorated with the Légion d’Honneur by the French government in recognition of her contribution to the cultural exchanges between France and the US.
The museum regularly organizes temporary exhibits with French artists, notably in 2012, with the exhibit crowning the museum’s 25th anniversary, Royalists to Romantics : Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections. This exhibit highlighted the remarkable accomplishments of 18th and 19th century French women artists during the period between 1750 and 1848.
Featuring over 75 paintings and sculptures, coming from collections of the Louvre, Versailles, Fontainebleau and other French museums, the exhibit offered the opportunity for the public to discover the works of over 30 French women artists exhibited together for the first time (artists such as Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Adélaide Labille-Guillard et Anne Vallayer-Coster) and to better understand their extraordinary contributions.
Other exhibits with French artists at NMWA:
Organization
Executive Committee:
Fabienne Flanigan
Presidente
Judith de Montgolfier
Co-Secretary
Annie Combelles
Treasurer
Danielle Grall
Sophie Lavine
Organization
Advisory board:
Tara Whitbeck
President
Constance Borde
Belinda de Gaudemar
Nancy Gillespie de la Selle
Berna Huebner
Sheila Malovany- Chevallier
Wally Thomas-Hermes
Les Amis du NMWA, a registered association in France under the 1901 law, is a non-profit organization managed by volunteers that actively seeks new volunteers who would like to get involved in achieving its mission.
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