Focus on Arts and Ecology

International Women's Day Virtual Festival—March 8

Spend your International Women's Day honoring women in the arts with NMWA. Join conversations with artists from around the world, participate in a family-friendly workshop, enjoy a cocktail and music with a special broadcast of The Tea, and much more! Online. Free. Reservation required for each program.

Thanks to J.Crew for sponsoring this event. Explore Creative Spirit Series: Cassi Namoda X J.Crew.

Welcome to International Women's Day

Tuesday, March 8 | 10–10:30 a.m. ET | Online

Join Susan Fisher Sterling, NMWA's Alice West Director, to kick off the museum's virtual International Women's Day celebration! Get an insider's look at our ongoing building renovation project as well as plans for the year ahead. Also, learn about the day's exciting programming.

Free. Reservation required.

Art Chat: Hanging Around

Tuesday, March 8 | 11–11:45 a.m. ET | Online

Join NMWA Director of Education and Interpretation Deborah Gaston for an informal 45-minute art chat about selected artworks from the museum's collection related to the theme "Hanging Around." Together, we'll explore three suspended sculptures, including two newer acquisitions that have never been on view at the museum. Come prepared to share your observations, ideas, and questions.

Free. Reservation required.

View featured artworks.

NMWA xChange: Cassi Namoda

Tuesday, March 8 | 12–12:45 p.m. ET | Online

On this episode of NMWA xChange, the museum's monthly talk show, Adrienne L. Gayoso, senior educator, and Ashley Harris, associate educator, welcome painter and performance artist Cassi Namoda. Born in Mozambique, Namoda explores the intricacies of social dynamics and mixed cultural and racial identity.

Namoda was named one of Elephant magazine's "Rising Art Stars of 2020" and was commissioned to paint a cover for the January 2020 issue of Vogue Italia. Her work is held in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Studio Museum, Harlem; and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She works in Los Angeles and New York.

Free. Reservation required.

In Conversation: Rehab Eldalil and Tabitha Soren

Tuesday, March 8 | 1–2 p.m. ET | Online

NMWA Assistant Curator Orin Zahra speaks with photographers Rehab Eldalil and Tabitha Soren, whose creative practices blur the lines between photojournalism and fine art. The conversation will explore the ways in which the two artists turn an acute eye toward society to reveal complexities of the human condition and psyche. Through their visual storytelling, which often includes the layering of other mediums with photography, they examine personal and collective loss, issues of social justice and ways to connect across divides.

Eldalil is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Cairo. Her work focuses on the broad theme of identity explored through participatory creative practices. She was awarded a 2020 Arab Documentary Photography Program grant by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Magnum Foundation, a 2020 Emergency Grant for Journalists by the National Geographic Society and a 2021 Creative Activism Award.

A visual artist for more than 25 years, Soren unpacks the intersection of psychology, politics, and the body. Soren's work is held in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and the Getty Museum.

Free. Reservation required.

Shadow Drawing Workshop with Emily Fussner

Designed for ages 7–10

Tuesday, March 8 | 4–5 p.m. ET | Online

Join Arlington Arts Center resident artist and arts educator Emily Fussner as she inspires students to see the world through light and shadow. In this workshop, participants will learn about Fussner's practice and create a work of their own using materials they have at home—discovering negative space and creating compositions through layering and color.

Fussner is a multidisciplinary artist whose work highlights peripheral patterns in everyday spaces and explores questions of transience and presence, fragility and strength, and perception and care.

Free. Reservation required. Space is limited.

Be sure to follow @womeninthearts on Instagram to see Emily Fussner in Arlington Arts Center's #5WomenArtists takeover in early March.

The Tea: SPIKED with Afi Soul

Tuesday, March 8 | 5:30–6:30 p.m. ET | Online

In this special presentation of The Tea, Afi Soul will perform original work via livestream and Chocolate City's Best bartenders Kapri Johnson and Denaya Jones will demonstrate a signature, tea-themed cocktail to accompany the performance. Over this special cup of spiked tea, Afi Soul will also discuss her creative process with Melani N. Douglass, director of public programs.

Afi Soul is a critically acclaimed R&B/soul singer whose 2007 self-distributed album Lovely landed on the Soultracks Top 10 Albums list, putting her in a class with Erykah Badu, Angela Johnson, Algebra, and Raheem DeVaughn. Her latest album, Rising, was released in 2014 and is independently distributed in stores and online.

Kapri Robinson is Washington, D.C.'s 2017 Cocktail Queen and has been a part of the beverage community in the city for almost a decade. While spending her time as a bartender, educator, and event organizer, she is also the president and founder of Chocolate City's Best. In 2020, Robinson organized Back to Black, an organization bringing together Black food and beverage creators to rally continued support of Black activism.

D.C. native Denaya Jones is the founder of Deestilled, a mobile, boutique-style company specializing in bespoke bar and spirits experiences. Jones is also director of operations for craft spirits retailer Seelbach's, content curator for Chocolate City's Best, and a member of Fred Minnick's American Spirits Counsel of Tasters.

Free. No reservation required. Tune in on NMWA's Facebook page and at nmwa.org/livestream.

Featured cocktail/mocktail recipes.

Artists Tote Bag

Designed by artist Ambar Del Moral to celebrate NMWA's #5WomenArtists social media campaign, this tote features the first and last names of various women artists, many in NMWA's collection, arranged in a trippy pattern.

Canvas. 16 x 14 in.

$20 / Member $18

Fill it with some #5WomenArtists swag and wear a T-shirt designed by Del Moral.

Explore more Women's History Month products.

International Women's Day Festival sponsored by J.Crew.

Header image: Mwangi Hutter, Static Drift, 2001; Two chromogenic prints on aluminum, 29 1/2 x 40 in.; NMWA, Gift of the Tony Podesta Collection, Washington, D.C.; Photo by Lee Stalsworth

Welcome image: Photo by Cameron Robinson

Art Chat image: Petah Coyne, Untitled #781, 1994; Wax, plastic, cloth, and steel, 62 x 35 x 44 in.; NMWA, Gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore, in Honor of the Artist; © Petah Coyne, Courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York; Photo by Lee Stalsworth

NMWA xChange image: Cassi Namoda; Courtesy of Goodman Gallery

In Conversation images: Rehab Eldalil, Hoda (23) from St. Catherine City (from the project "Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken"), 2019; Digital photograph; Courtesy of the artist; © Rehab Eldalil | Tabitha Soren, Emotional Wreck (from the series "Some Blows Are Heavy"), 2021; Archival ink-jet print, resin, ink, acrylic, gesso, birch wood panel, 30 x 40 in.; Courtesy of the artist; © Tabitha Soren

Shadow Drawing Workshop image: Emily Fussner; Photo by Karena De Merchant

The Tea images: Courtesy of Afi Soul | Kapri Robinson, photo by Jennifer Chase, courtesy of Edible DC | Courtesy of Denaya Jones

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