Exhibitions:October 2018 - May 2021: betsabee romero: signals of a long road togetheroctober 8, 2020 - January 18, 2021: paper routes: women to watch 2020march 3, 2021 - June 28, 2021: sonya clark: tatter, bristle, and mendmay 1, 2020 - August 16, 2020: mary ellen mark: girlhoodjune 8 - June 12, 2021: her flag institutional attendance:fy21 total attendance: 30,912 (July 28, 2020 to December 24, 2020; March 3, 2021 to July 31, 2021)virtual program attendance: 12,748 (not factored into the above total)added together + a tiny rental number = 43,676fy20 total attendance: 95,487 (July 1, 2019 to March 13, 2020)average daily visitor attendance: 114*fy20: 299**adjusted for the actual number of days museum was openexhibition attendanceexhibition dates total attendance average daily visitorsgraciela iturbide's mexico* 2/28/2020-3/12/2020; 8/1/2020-8/23/2020 8,202,200paper routes--women to watch 2020 10/8/20-12/23/20 4,375 58sonya clark: tatter, bristle, and mend 3/3/21-6/27/21 21,791,186mary ellen mark: girlhood** 3/3/21-8/9/21 22,401,186*exhibition spans across fiscal years; stats are for the entire run of the show**exhibition spans across fiscal years; stats are for fy21 onlymary ellen mark: girlhoodmedia quotes- "but the national museum of women in the arts May be the only art institution in washington to grant photography near-equality with painting and sculpture. In the galleries on the upper floors, you can find ruth orkin in a room with helen frankenthaler. Mary ellen mark looks right at home." - Wall street journal- "what mark's work gets at is not simply the way the adult is latent in the child but how the beginnings of womanhood surface - sometimes bubbling up with that ubiquitous, inexplicable wish that children have to be seen as grown up; at other times, yanked into the light by circumstances." - Washington post- "a celebrated american photographer best known for her in-depth documentary work, mary ellen mark produced some of the most delicately shaded studies of vulnerability ever set on film. For over four decades, she traveled extensively to make compelling photographs that reflect a high degree of humanism." - Widewalls- "mark's close relationship with tiny is emblematic of her approach to capturing the joys and struggles of her subjects. The intimate access she gained to their lives was premised on trust and longevity. In an interview with american photo in 1998, she explained, "your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about what you're doing. They can sense that immediately." - 1854/british journal of photography - "these are images of hardship and despair, but also levity." - Aestheticavisitor comments- i was a feminist artist in the 70s where such a gallery could not be imagined. Thrilled to be here. Work is exceptional. Recent photo exhibit mary mark blew ME away. Wish gift shop was open. Will go online. Docent at info was passionate too. Thank you!Sonya clark: tatter, bristle, and mendmedia quotes- "sonya clark continually challenges us, ensconced as we might be in our smug niches of "art and "craft." The acrobatics and virtuosity she displays with mundane materials - hair, hair combs, beads, utilitarian cloth, and the occasional digital venture - belie our usual expectations of their possibilities and gnaw at the edges of conceptualism, sculpture, and performance." - Hyperallergic - "renowned for her explorations of the cultural and political aspects of hair - specifically black hair - clark does not disappoint in this dizzying survey of 100 works executed over the last 25 years." - Hyperallergic- "the national museum of women in the arts is bringing her necessary work to a wider audience." - Washingtonian magazine- "clark's ability to transform such everyday things into pungent critiques is central to the national museum of women in the arts exhibition "tatter, bristle and mend," the artist's first major career survey." - Washington post- "even when pondering the things closest to her own life, clark is always exquisitely attuned to the ways they can be used as metaphors for the larger black experience." - Washington post- "clark's work enforces the connections between african diasporic people through their hair and shared circumstance. Hair, as a symbol of blackness in these artworks, bonds the people to her work and speaks of their potency and permanence. She manipulates fibers to contextualize the heinous experiences of black people based on something as natural but disquieting as hair. Tatter, bristle, and mend reestablishes black hair as beautiful after centuries of black people being told their natural hair is inappropriate." - Washington city paper- "her pieces position and contrast artifacts and symbols of the black experience in America through her chosen materials of human hair, glass beads, combs, cotton, sugar, currency, cloth, and thread, among others, to channel her ideas about unrecognized black makers throughout history who utilized the same sorts of craft practices that she herself employs." - Bmoreart- "often read through a political lens, the work is timely, important, and as clark herself summed up for ME, "also authentic, also formal, also historical, also cultural, also beautiful, also ugly." - Bmoreart- "taking over an entire floor of the museum, the show is a massive undertaking that showcases 100 works in a survey spanning clark's career, divided into rooms roughly by different bodies of work. The exhibition makes the viewer feel as if they are in conversation with clark" - bmoreart- "tatter, bristle, and mend is a beautifully designed and thought-provoking show...As i moved through the show, what surprised ME was the lessening of my anxiety and a growing feeling of comfort and nostalgia for home." - American craft council- "during my visits to the museum, i met various generations of black women for whom the show resonated deeply. Many were from the DC area and came specifically and proudly to celebrate their local sister-artist." - American craft councilvisitor commentsin addition to the quotes below, sonya clark received a score of 85 on our net promoter score surveys. This is the highest score we've ever had since starting with the nps survey.- The entire experience was excellent, but the sonya clark exhibit was powerful and phenomenal!- Amazing sonya clark exhibition. An incredible talent and force i just realized thanks to the museum.- Clark's exhibit was spectacularly influential and conveyed strong, impactful messages for youth and aspiring artists.- The sonya clark exhibit was amazing. It was very relevant and vulnerable. Beautiful and socially aware art.- Sonya clark's work is so incredibly moving. Women's voices are loud and strong.- The sonya clark exhibit was beautiful. Opened my mind & eyes to black history in a different way.- Clark's installation moved ME to tears- the sonya clark exhibit is the single best gallery exhibit i have seen in recent memory- the sonya clark show was the best exhibit i've seen in years, and we do art all the time. Love the curatorial choices in the main collection. Love this museum.- Sonya clark's descriptions of her art was amazing and should be required study in schools- curation of sonya clark exhibit is outstanding. The art unraveled deep threads of my own. Beautiful and transformational- sonya clark's show was the highlight of my visit, yet nothing in here left ME disappointed.Paper routes-women to watch 2020media quotes- "while little about paper itself, fibrous and malleable, has changed over time, its form has never ceased to inspire new processes and experimentation. On view at the national museum of women in the arts (nmwa) in washington, d.C., Through January 18, 2021, paper routes-women to watch 2020 examines artists' current fascinations with paper, highlighting works born of radical and often unpredictable metamorphosis. The results have been cut, sculpted, painted, sewn, and even singed; they challenge expectations and definitions of mediums." - Fine books magazinevisitor comments- "loved the paper exhibition and mix of art over time next to each other."- "The paper route floor was really great. Also i am a female art student and this place is very inspiring."- "Paper routes and julie chen exhibit were fabulous and demonstrate the crucial role of nmwa in showing women's artistic works."

Outreach:- digital engagement stats - visits to nmwa.Org- 1,527,775 unique pageviews (1,841,484 pageviews) -15% increase from fy20, which had 1,324,721 unique pageviews. - Twitter followers - 62,800 (increase of 5,163 or 9%)- twitter's pace of growth was about on par with fy20, which was 177% higher than fy 2019. - Facebook followers- 57,251 (increase of 1,951 or 2.58%) - instagram followers - 123,339 (increase of 19,952 or 19.08%) - youtube views- 64,273 views - increased from fy20's 31,206 views.- 600 new subscribers, surpassed 1,000 subscribers this year. - Top playlist: women to watch 2020-paper routes - studio tours- most popular instagram post, tweet, facebook post or instagram: remedios varo's birthday/LA llamada- here are some other popular posts: sonya clark's hair craft project hairstyles men have made a lot of bad art sweater (out of stock), audrey niffenegger's birthday/raven girl (the most popular fy20 post), angela glajcar's terforation (part of paper routes), elizabeth jane gardner bouguereau's birthday/nmwa visitor recreation- tweet: - curative collective conversation announcement that no kid hungry retweeted. - Https://twitter.Com/womeninthearts/status/1307650789029052416 - https://twitter.Com/womeninthearts/status/1296818382059253760 - https://twitter.Com/womeninthearts/status/1295103082230095872- facebook: wilhelmina cole holladay nyt obituary- digital exhibitions: this year, we launched a new custom component for online exhibitions with plans to expand it further in fy22 to include more layout options and non-linear navigation. - We debuted this new feature with the paper routes-women to watch 2020 exhibition, followed by sonya clark: tatter, bristle, and mend, mary ellen mark: girlhood, and commemorating nmwa founder wilhelmina cole holladay. We also adapted dmv color to this new feature.- We also published online exhibitions on google arts & culture (embedded on our website), including seven online exhibitions in a series titled the book as art and ambreen butt-mark my words.- In total, we published 12 new online exhibitions this year, excluding dmv color. - Total views for all exhibitions: 9,067 - most popular exhibition: paper routes-women to watch 2020 (4,190 views)- #5womenartistsnmwa expanded to a yearlong campaign in January of 2021. This expansion included continuing the popular museum takeover instagram stories featuring nmwa's staff in #5womenartists instagram posts, hosting a full-day free virtual international women's day event, adding a #5womenartists feature to the popular virtual happy hour events, and releasing a set of brand new #5womenartists shareable graphics (and some refreshed ones).- Website and accessibility highlights-post-website launch: after launching the new nmwa.Org at the end of fy20, we focused fy21 on improving user experience, performing quality assurance, and adding exciting new content.- Continued focus on digital accessibility that allows visitors, regardless of ability or assistive technology, to access and enjoy the museum's resources. Launched a new custom component for online exhibitions with plans to expand it further in fy22 to include more layout options and non-linear navigation. Added a new section to the artwork pages in our online collection to explore related artworks. This provides our online visitors the opportunity to discover new works of art and allow for additional moments of discovery and learning. Debuted the nmwa campaign section in May, which includes details of the building renovation project and a brand new timeline feature.- Miscellaneous social media - we've begun regularly highlighting shop products on instagram (weekly, up until the recent shop closure, and starting up again on October 1, 2021) through posts and stories. - Continued doing a series of artist highlights during heritage months featuring works in and artists represented in our collection. We do this every year, typically for black history month, asian pacific american heritage month, (lgbtq) pride month, hispanic heritage month, and native american heritage month. That said, we make sure to highlight diverse women artists all year round! Other campaigns we participated in: #museumloveletter archives hashtag party, and #museumtrickortreat.Nmwa has 27 active committees with more than 3,000 members and program supporters in asia, Europe, North America, the middle east, and south America.In 2021 alone, nmwa formed five new committees. We extend a warm welcome to new members in colorado, india, Israel, japan, and wyoming!Committees from 22 regions participated in paper routes -making it the most expansive women to watch to date. That said, nmwa is proudly on track to include an even greater geographic span in the next iteration of women to watch!Paper routes - women to watch 2020:- over 16,300 people learned about paper routes by visiting digital resources and the online exhibition.- Over 4,400 visitors saw paper routes in person at the museum: including over 450 visitors who visited nmwa during "free community days."- About 1,400 people attended two virtual partner programs with the baltimore museum of art involving paper routes artists. - Over 1,300 people attended 18 virtual studio tours with paper routes artists, and another 2,800 watched the studio tours afterwards on nmwa's youtube.- Over 910 people from 36 u.S. States (and DC and mexico) called into 21 "guide by cell" recordings to hear paper routes artists discuss their work. About 450 others listened to audio resources for the exhibition online. -Over 400 copies of the paper routes catalogue were sold in-person and online.- About 250 people attended a virtual event, organized by the embassies of argentina, chile, and peru, involving three paper routes artists from latin America. - About 200 people attended an exclusive preview for the filmed tour of paper routes. Over 1,000 others viewed the film afterwards, online.Select committee activities:- el captulo chileno del nmwa, in partnership with cv galera, organized an extensive virtual and in-person exhibition of over forty women photographers based in chile, titled historias de un encierro ("stories in confinement"). El captulo, in alliance with several agencies, also organized a sculpture contest for a tribute to chilean women, to be installed in santiago in 2022.- Les amis du nmwa created a mentorship program among art professionals and emerging women artists, and partnered with the curatorial platform some of us to publish a book about contemporary women artists in france.^ Members of el captulo chileno del nmwa tour historias de un encierro with exhibiting artists mara lpez and maril ortiz de rozas and patrons. Photo credit: vernica cceres.- Santa fe art collectors roddie and steve harris gave a virtual tour of their collection to members of the new mexico committee. The committee also organized a group visit to site santa fe and collaborated with the new mexico arts imaginative collective to produce a virtual art showcase.- The arkansas committee organized a traveling exhibition and accompanying film featuring the state's nominated paper routes artists, which continues its tour of six venues across the state through February 2022. A group of arkansas committee members also traveled to d.C. To see her flag installed on the nmwa exterior. - The mississippi committee opened a members' showcase, feather and fortress II, at the mary c. O'keefe cultural center and filmed a virtual walkthrough.- Throughout the pandemic, the uk friends of nmwa have held free, public virtual conversations with women artists, curators, and other uk-based arts professionals.- The san francisco advocacy organized virtual tours with the five northern californian artists who were nominated for paper routes. Committee board secretary and nab member robin laub also published blog interviews with each nominated artist.- The massachusetts committee held a virtual visit to art in bloom at the museum of fine arts, boston, which showcases floral arrangements alongside collection works. Committee trustee susan cohen also created a series of email newsletters spotlighting each paper routes artist, which were published throughout 2020.- The georgia committee held a virtual fresh talk with atlanta-based artist and activist yehimi cambrn, in dialogue with migration and immigration specialists. The committee also led art walks to atlanta studios and women-owned galleries.- El captulo peruano del nmwa visited work by women at the museo de arte contemporneo de lima, miraflores cultural center, and other local institutions.- The texas state committee traveled to d.C. To visit sonya clark: tatter, bristle, and mend, the nmwa collection, and our historic building before renovations began.

Curatorial library and publications:fiscal year: July 1 2020-June 30 2021- 5,121 visitors (open oct-dec 2020; mar-June 2021)- lrc exhibitions in fy21 - linda nochlin: the maverick she, mar 8, 2020-oct 8, 2020 - julie chen: true to life, oct 12, 2020-jun 30, 2021 - in-person tour for apha chesapeake as part of their monthly programming.- Book/material acquisitions or collection growth - 2,354 items catalogued: - 361 books - 1,993 artist files - 3 archival collections accessioned: - gallery 10 - maxine cable - adjoa burrowes - 6 artists' books acquired: - tia blassingame, i am - julie chen, wayfinding - julie chen, panorama - sanaz haghani, the red moon - clarissa sligh, transforming hate: an artist's book - clarissa sligh, my mother, walt whitman and ME: a recollection - 453 reference and research inquiries answered - dams use/growth - 1,294 new uploads - 7,020 total downloads - 2,637 different assets downloaded - most downloaded asset was alma thomas' iris, tulips, jonquils, and crocuses- notable programs - two (2) virtual wikipedia edit-a-thons - August 2020 - March 2021 - launch of inaugural lrc e-newsletter - nmwa book club - old in art school by nell painter - the blazing world by siri hustvedt - virtual birthday happy hours - frida kahlo - rosa bonheur - alma thomas - five (5) virtual story times - other events - iwd virtual presentation on the international festivals of women artists archival collection- quotes/positive feedback/testimonials from visitors and volunteers - i just wanted to express my profound gratitude for making the pertinent arrangements for ME to spend several days at the lrc at the national museum of women in the arts consulting three entire boxes of frida kahlo's correspondence amid all the arrangements for the temporary closure of the museum. I cannot thank you enough for this unique opportunity to reframe my approach to kahlo as i teach the senior seminar for hispanic studies students at davidson this next fall. I sincerely appreciate your unique support, and the great assistance at the lrc.I hope you all have a smooth transition and continue to do such important and exceptional work at the lrc and at the national museum of women in the arts.*It was lovely to see so many people visiting the exhibit at the lrc while i was doing my research. - Aside from this particular piece of art, i will say that even with the challenges closed museums (and libraries) are having during this difficult time, i have been most appreciative and so humbly impressed by so many folks, like yourself. I am more thankful than ever for the interactions i have had with many museums across the country, which has made for much more interesting content to teach and talk about with my kids as we get through this together. This piece of art just opened up another topic to talk about, and i figure it's not everyday we have museum-quality art in our home! My girls especially have been captivated by it. If it was a few feet smaller in each direction, we'd probably keep it! It barely fit in my minivan! - Thank you very much for the letters. They are amazing documents, very important, funny, and at moments, i have to say, quite bizarre. They are very helpful for my research. And also thank you emily for directing ME to the wolfes' archive!We had so many visitors to the reading room after reopening this spring, especially archivists from other institutions, who were so enthusiastic about the work the lrc is doing to make sure that women don't continue to get written out of the art historical record. - 77 acquisitions recieved during the year