2024 International Women to Watch Exhibit: A New World
April 14 - August 11, 2024 | National Museum of Women in the Arts
Women to Watch is the National Museum of Women in the art’s biennial exhibition program that features underrepresented and emerging women artists. Each exhibition focuses on a specific medium or theme chosen by the museum’s curators. The program is designed to increase the visibility of, and critical response to, promising women artists. Additionally, the program seeks to incorporate high quality art professionals into the committees’ activities.
This is the first time Wyoming will participate in NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition, which this year includes Wyoming Women to Watch artist Sarah Ortegon representing the Wind River Reservation.
Opening April 14, the exhibition 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.
Ortegon’s proposal for the New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition was is a large-scale painting of 4 jingle dresses representing the seasons, dancing without a physical body. Ortegon's beadwork is integrated directly onto her canvas in places where the regalia would typically have actual beadwork, forming Arapaho and Shoshone design.
WYNMWA is sponsoring Sarah’s travel to Washington D.C. for the exhibition opening.
“For me to be nominated as one of the 5 Wyoming women artists is just an incredible honor. I’m humbled and stunned and thrilled all at once.”
— Jennifer Rife, Nominated Artist
