2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA: Celebrating the Impact of Female-Identifying Artists throughout American History
100 years after women gained the right to vote, only 27% of major exhibitions are devoted to women artists worldwide. Challenging underrepresentation and celebrating diversity, artists featured will include Kara Walker, Anni Albers, Shantell Martin, Yoko Ono, Nancy Spero, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Jennifer Wen Ma, and more.
On view through January 31, 2021. Check Museum website for any closings. Location: New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
An Unfinished Revolution: The Woman's Suffrage Centennial
This exhibit features a wide variety of historic objects from museums, libraries, private collections and descendants of suffragists to illustrate the long struggle for the right to vote. Through educational and interpretive programming, the Historical Society will explore broader social and civic issues that resonate today, such as voter registration, voter suppression and the Equal Rights Amendment. is curated by Kathleen Craughwell-Varda, a 30-year veteran in the museum field who has extensive knowledge of Connecticut history and the contributions of women in the state from settlement through the 21st century.
Women Take the Floor
Challenging the dominant history of 20th-century American art, this exhibit focuses on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. This reinstallation—or “takeover”—of Level 3 of the Art of the Americas Wing advocates for diversity, inclusion, and gender equity in museums, the art world, and beyond. With more than 200 works drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, the exhibition is organized into seven thematic galleries. Interactive programming creates a dynamic space that welcomes visitor participation, and new rotations of artwork introduced over the run of the exhibition ensure that new voices and perspectives are available on each return visit.
Exhibit Celebrates Women’s Activism
Our 2020 exhibit celebrates 200 years of women crafting community. Learn about their efforts to support abolition, temperance, and suffrage.
On view through December 2020. Check Museum website for any closings. Location: Norwich Historical Society and Community Center, VT
POSTPONED: Becoming Vanderbilt
The exhibition “Becoming Vanderbilt” is postponed until further notice. The opening reception will be rescheduled for a later date.
Vanderbilt men are well known for their dominance of 19th-century American industry and the staggering fortunes they amassed during the Gilded Age; meanwhile, their wives and daughters turned their talents and formidable influence to causes outside the expected domestic realm. From Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt’s philanthropy to her daughter Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s work as patron, artist and museum founder, to Alva Vanderbilt Belmont’s advocacy on behalf of women’s suffrage to her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan’s benevolence, we honor the legacy of these extraordinary women. The exhibition will draw upon holdings in the Preservation Society’s collections as well as key loans from other institutions and private collections.