Direct Support for NMWA

GA NMWA works directly with NMWA to identify, purchase, and donate salient works by Georgia women artists, while continually participating in Museum fundraising campaigns

Recent Contributions:

SONYA YONG JAMES

The Future Has an Ancient Heart, 2024
horsehair and hand-dyed cotton
67" x 59" x 6"
Purchased in 2025
(via Whitespace Gallery)

KELLY TAYLOR MITCHELL

Between Starshine & Clay, 2021
unbound, 6-page artist book: original text, artist-made cotton, and Atlanta foraged kudzu paper, hand-embroidery, screen-printing, and letterpress
varied edition of 15
Purchased in 2025

JIHA MOON (Woman to watch 2015)

Take Out, 2012
Lithograph print
Purchased in 2020

Snow White-Detourist, 2012
Screen-print
Purchased in 2020

Fortune Cookie, 2019
Letterpress print
Purchased in 2020

SANAZ HAGHANI (Woman to watch 2020)

Red Moon, 2019
Unique Artist Book: screen-print, marbling, and monoprint on paper
5.5” x 8.5”
Purchased in 2020

MILDRED THOMPSON

Magnetic Fields, 1990
Oil on canvas
62” x 48”
Purchased in 2018

Donated at NMWA’s request following Thompson’s inclusion in
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today
at the Kemper Museum and at NMWA in 2017/2018

Other Contributions:

2023:

Completed a $150,000 pledge to Space to Soar, the Museum’s building renovation campaign

2013 – 2016:

Donated Jiha Moon, Leia, 2013, ceramic sculpture to the NMWA permanent collection

Exhibition Sponsor for the 2016 exhibition, She Who Tells A Story

Funded the purchase of the Florence Knoll benches for the Museum’s exhibition spaces

Named the Baluster in the Great Hall in honor of Anna Stapleton Henson and her years of dedicated service as GANMWA Chair

2002-2012:

Established an Acquisitions Project which raised over $70,000 to place major works by Georgia women artists, selected by NMWA, into the Museum’s Permanent Collection. Artists include Genevieve Arnold, Annette Cone-Skelton, Jiha Moon, and Nellie Mae Rowe.