Women to Watch 2020: Paper Routes

Women to Watch is an exhibition program organized by the National Museum of Women inthe Arts in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with the Museum’s network of national and international advocacy committees. The series features underrepresented women artists who are connected to the regions where the museum has committees.

ARIZONA NOMINEES

Arizona artist included in exhibition: Annie Lopez

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The sixth installment in NMWAA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, shows the delicate properties of paper through meticulous cuts, resulting in elaborate forms and patterns, forming surprisingly dense and monumental sculptures.  Paper Routes celebrates this eclectic material made into complex works of art.

ARIZONA CURATOR: Each participating Committee chooses a curator to choose up to 5artists for consideration by NMWA for the Exhibition.Dr. Julie Sasse (she/her) is the retired Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) with a specialty in contemporary art. Since joining TMA, she has organized more than 100 group andsolo exhibitions and has written more than 40 publications about diverse subjects and artists, including hybridity and the environment, Native American art Latin American art and under- recognized women artists. In 2020, she released her book: Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch, published by Cattle Track Press and the Tucson Museum off Art.

Dr. Julie Sasse

2020 Arizona Curator