This Focus gallery exhibition explores the dynamics of African ceramics, with attention to different approaches to making ceramics and the roles of gender and women ceramicists in Africa. The exhibition includes a selection of ceramics from across sub-Saharan Africa donated or on loan from the collection of William M. Itter, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

This student-curated focus exhibition, developed during a spring 2021 ASURE course, explores the history of ancient Roman fashion.

The focus exhibition illuminates how international exchange fostered the development of modernist art in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.

Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will feature more than 180 prints by contemporary women artists who employ a strategy of fragmentation in their artistic process. Derived from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation—one of the largest private print collections in the world—the exhibition is presented by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA) in partnership with the American University Art Museum.

This focus gallery exhibition features works donated to the museum by one of our earliest benefactors, the collector Samuel H. Kress.