I had lofty dreams when I applied to the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2023 Artist Award. I was going to start my second wearable sculpture fashion line and rent a larger studio to accommodate my massive vision. Little did I know a week after being awarded the grant I would have unexpected surgery to remove my gallbladder, from which I am still recovering.

Here is an excerpt from an Arkansas Art Scene Blog interview artist Elizabeth Weber, a recipient of ACNMWA’s Artist Award and a featured artist in the ACNMWA Artist Registry.

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) is accepting applications from Arkansas women who are visual artists for the organization’s annual Artist Award. The criteria and application are available here.

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Lisa Krannichfeld, of Little Rock, as the Artist Award recipient for 2024.

The purpose of the award is to assist an accomplished woman artist to realize her vision and help to make her achievements more visible to the art community and the public. “Most art students today are women and 90 percent of museum purchases are art by men,” said ACNMWA President MaryRoss Taylor. “We know women earn less and have myriad obligations, so our award has no conditions attached. We aim to help an established woman artist move to the next level.”

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) announces Tram Colwin, of Siloam Springs, as the Artist Award recipient for 2025. The purpose of the award is to assist an accomplished woman artist to realize her vision and help to make her achievements more visible to the art community and the public.

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts has selected Emily Granderson to receive the organization’s 2024 Internship Award.

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Shelby Fleming as the Artist Award winner for 2023.

The Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2024. Organized in Little Rock on March 21, 1989, by Helen Walton and Ed Dell Wortz, ACNMWA is a non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting the achievements of Arkansas women artists and sharing the groundbreaking work of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) with audiences across the state. The Arkansas Committee is one of the first committees established to support the Washington, D.C., museum, which now has 17 state committees and 14 international committees.

Over the last five months, members of the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) and the organization’s programs have been showcased in earned and paid coverage in a variety of print and online publications. Following are links to select articles and advertisements.

Each year, the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA) selects an Arkansas woman student attending an Arkansas university or college to receive a $3,000 stipend to collaborate with a mentor working in an Arkansas museum, gallery or arts institution.

Welcome to our new website, your gateway to an ever-growing number of Arkansas women artists and to the internationally recognized museum in Washington, D.C. whose name we bear: the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We’re so glad you’re here, because the arts mean nothing without an audience.

The Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, recently announced the 2024 Governor’s Arts Awards recipients which included two board members of the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in Arts. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on March 8, 2024, in Little Rock.

Arkansas Artist Heidi Carlsen-Rogers is one of four women artists featured in the Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds traveling exhibition, on display at Baum Gallery in Conway through October 13. This curated exhibition is a program of the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The other artists in the exhibition are Anaïs Dassé, Hanna McBroom and Aimée Papazian.

Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds is the latest exhibit in the Women to Watch exhibition series, conceived by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It will be in the International Paper Gallery at the Arts and Science Center for Southest Arkansas in Pine Bluff through August 20.

Art enthusiasts and cultural explorers, mark your calendars! The Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds exhibition is set to open at the Baum Gallery on the University of Central Arkansas campus on Thursday, August 24, with a free opening reception that day from 4 to 7 p.m. It will run through October 13.

Are you ready for the next stop for the Arkansas Women to Watch 2023 exhibition? This statewide tour is currently at the South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado, Ark., and will be until April 27.

News Release from the National Endowment for the Arts – New data released last month show arts and cultural industries hit an all-time high in 2022, contributing 4.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or $1.1 trillion, to the U.S. economy. However, growth was not sector-wide, with performing arts organizations, non-government museums, and arts-related construction among the arts industries that have yet to reach their pre-pandemic levels of economic value.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, the largest edition of the museum’s longstanding series featuring international emerging artists. The exhibition opened April 14 and highlights the work of 28 visionary artists who imagine alternate realities. With perspectives that shift across geographies, cultural viewpoints and mediums, the artists inspire viewers to envision different futures. New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 is on view through August 11, 2024.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates its mission with a statement from Austrian artist Katharina Cibulka, cross-stitched at monumental scale on our construction scaffolding.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts— the world’s first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists— reopened on October 21, 2023, after a two-year renovation, revealing a transformed building, powerful exhibitions and engaging public programs. NMWA reimagined its historic home at 1250 New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., to offer flexible exhibition spaces for immersive exhibitions, a versatile studio/classroom area and improved accessibility for visitors.