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person people schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

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Komal Shah, a prominent art collector, announced the renaming of her Shah Garg Foundation to the Making Their Mark Foundation, coinciding with a three-day forum in Washington, D.C., scheduled for March 2025. The foundation takes its name from the traveling exhibition "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection," curated by Cecilia Alemani, which highlights women artists from Shah and her husband Gaurav Garg's collection. The forum, held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, will feature panels, keynotes, and performances organized around themes like Visionary Voices and Changemakers, with Alemani as curatorial director and Loring Randolph as director.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 11, 2025 visibility 18 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

“Making Their Mark” exhibition celebrating women in art comes to the Kemper Art Museum

The Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis will host "Making Their Mark," an exhibition of 68 works by women artists from the collection of Komal Shah and the Shah Garg Foundation. Running from September 12 to January 5, 2026, it is the museum's largest-ever exhibition and its third stop after New York and Berkeley. Curated by Cecilia Alemani and Sabine Eckmann, the show features artists including Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell, Charline von Heyl, Judy Chicago, and Suzanne Jackson, organized under themes like "Painting is Technology" and "Luminous Abstraction."

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 23 link 32 artists, 3 galleries

‘Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection’

The article announces the exhibition 'Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection' at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). The show features works from the collection of Shah Garg, highlighting a selection of contemporary artworks.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Mary Weatherford - The Surrealist - Exhibitions

Mary Weatherford presents a new body of work in her exhibition "The Surrealist," featuring large-scale abstract paintings that incorporate unconventional materials such as neon, coral, and starfish. The show includes works like "A Rose Tree" (2025), "Bonfire" (2025), and the titular "The Surrealist" (2024–2025), all executed in flashe on linen with mixed media elements.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 26, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

Fall and Winter 2025 Programming at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., has announced its fall and winter 2025 programming lineup. Highlights include the monthly after-hours series NMWA Nights, the landmark exhibition "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600–1750" opening September 26, and a mixed-media photography show by Baltimore-based artist Tawny Chatmon. The season also features hands-on workshops in paper-cutting with Janelle Washington, Pilates sessions in the museum's Great Hall, Fresh Talk discussions on fashion and the gender pay gap, Free Community Days, and a holiday Makers' Market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 18 link 7 artists

Kemper Art Museum at WashU debuts its largest-ever exhibition

The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has opened its largest-ever exhibition, "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection." The show features over 80 works by nearly 70 artists, with a focus on women artists and artists of color. A centerpiece is a monumental diptych by Joan Mitchell, her last completed work before her death in 1992. The exhibition, which previously traveled from New York City to Berkeley, California, will be on view through January 5.

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