Exhibitions
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Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY BegaySeptember 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025American Indian Museum
Sublime Light celebrates more than three decades of innovation by fiber artist DY Begay and is the first retrospective of Begay’s career, showcasing 48 of her most remarkable tapestries.
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Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s ActivismJuly 19, 2024 – OngoingAfrican American History and Culture Museum
Learn about renowned educator and reformer Mary McLeod Bethune and other Black women social change agents, past and present.
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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by WomenMay 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025Renwick Gallery
Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.
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Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025Portrait Gallery
Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.
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Commissioned Portrait of Oprah WinfreyDecember 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024Portrait Gallery
Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.
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¡De última hora!: Latinas Report Breaking NewsSeptember 15, 2023 – May 2026American History Museum
Working in the fast-paced, ever-changing environment of broadcast news, these women shaped and shape the narrative for major historical events.
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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of LifeJuly 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025Hirshhorn
Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.
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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. JacksonApril 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025African Art Museum
In this exhibition, Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.
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We Belong Here: Marking the 50th Anniversary of Title IXJune 23, 2022 – IndefinitelyAmerican History Museum
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the federal legislation that unintentionally helped bring equality to sports, this 30-foot display case illuminates three athletes’ stories.
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Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social ChangeJune 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025American History Museum
Music HerStory explores the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers through unique media collections from the Smithsonian.
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Picturing Women InventorsMay 21, 2021 – OngoingAmerican History Museum
Featuring stories of contemporary and historic women, this display of photos and graphics is dominated by lively, larger-than-life images of female inventors.
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The Only One in the Room: Women Achievers in Business and the Cost of SuccessNovember 20, 2020 – TBAAmerican History Museum
This display features the stories of eight strong women who made it to the top.
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Janet Echelman's 1.8 RenwickSeptember 18, 2020 – May 13, 2025Renwick Gallery
Echelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.
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Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy SheraldFebruary 13, 2018 – IndefinitelyPortrait Gallery
View the commissioned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, now permanently installed in the museum.
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The Four JusticesOctober 28, 2013 – IndefinitelyPortrait Gallery
See Supreme Court justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in this life-size portrait.
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The First LadiesNovember 19, 2011 – IndefinitelyAmerican History Museum
Learn how first ladies have shaped the role of first lady as the role of women in society evolved.
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The Struggle for JusticeFebruary 12, 2010 – PermanentPortrait Gallery
This exhibition showcases major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.
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