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Anonymous Was a Woman
The Kreeger Museum is pleased to present Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Ren茅e Stout, opening on October 16, 2025. Curated by Dr. Vesela Sretenovi膰, the exhibition will feature the recent work of Anonymous Was a Woman grant recipients and DMV-based artists Jae Ko, linn meyers, Joyce J. Scott, and Ren茅e Stout.
"It is an absolute honor to present this exhibition and celebrate these artists; we are thrilled to welcome Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout back to our gallery spaces and commemorate their work and the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant program.鈥� -Helen Chason, Director of The Kreeger Museum.
Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Ren茅e Stout, dovetails with the recent group exhibition, Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years organized by and presented at the New York University鈥檚 Grey Art Museum, April 1-July 19, 2025, and co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenovi膰.
The Grey exhibition celebrated the first quarter-century of the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) grant program, established in 1996 by visionary philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg. The program is dedicated to supporting mid-career women artists living and working in the United States. Its name refers to a phrase in Virginia Woolf鈥檚 essay A Room of One鈥檚 Own, which underscores the challenges that creative women have historically faced in a male-dominated society.
The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 exhibition, curated by Sretenovi膰, focuses exclusively on four AWAW recipients who reside and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Jae Ko (AWAW 2012), linn meyers (AWAW 2023), Joyce J. Scott (AWAW 1997), and Ren茅e Stout (AWAW 1999). While the Grey exhibition featured works created around the time of each artist鈥檚 award, The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 presentation spotlights the most recent work of its participating artists, picking up where the Grey show left off in 2020. Moreover, whereas the Grey offered a broader overview of artistic production by women-artists in the first 25 years of the award, The Kreeger Museum aims to present a more focused, in-depth look at the new works of Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout.
In this respect, The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 exhibition not only celebrates artists based in the DMV area 鈥攁ligning with the Museum鈥檚 mission鈥攂ut also extends the reach of the AWAW program beyond New York City, further disseminating its mission: to support and bring greater visibility to the creative output of women artists.
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The Kreeger Museum is pleased to present Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Ren茅e Stout, opening on October 16, 2025. Curated by Dr. Vesela Sretenovi膰, the exhibition will feature the recent work of Anonymous Was a Woman grant recipients and DMV-based artists Jae Ko, linn meyers, Joyce J. Scott, and Ren茅e Stout.
"It is an absolute honor to present this exhibition and celebrate these artists; we are thrilled to welcome Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout back to our gallery spaces and commemorate their work and the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant program.鈥� -Helen Chason, Director of The Kreeger Museum.
Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Ren茅e Stout, dovetails with the recent group exhibition, Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years organized by and presented at the New York University鈥檚 Grey Art Museum, April 1-July 19, 2025, and co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenovi膰.
The Grey exhibition celebrated the first quarter-century of the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) grant program, established in 1996 by visionary philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg. The program is dedicated to supporting mid-career women artists living and working in the United States. Its name refers to a phrase in Virginia Woolf鈥檚 essay A Room of One鈥檚 Own, which underscores the challenges that creative women have historically faced in a male-dominated society.
The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 exhibition, curated by Sretenovi膰, focuses exclusively on four AWAW recipients who reside and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Jae Ko (AWAW 2012), linn meyers (AWAW 2023), Joyce J. Scott (AWAW 1997), and Ren茅e Stout (AWAW 1999). While the Grey exhibition featured works created around the time of each artist鈥檚 award, The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 presentation spotlights the most recent work of its participating artists, picking up where the Grey show left off in 2020. Moreover, whereas the Grey offered a broader overview of artistic production by women-artists in the first 25 years of the award, The Kreeger Museum aims to present a more focused, in-depth look at the new works of Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout.
In this respect, The Kreeger Museum鈥檚 exhibition not only celebrates artists based in the DMV area 鈥攁ligning with the Museum鈥檚 mission鈥攂ut also extends the reach of the AWAW program beyond New York City, further disseminating its mission: to support and bring greater visibility to the creative output of women artists.
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