Renaissance Woman

FAIN: GI-287587-22

Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD 21218-3898)
Andaleeb Banta (Project Director: January 2022 to present)

Implementation of a female artist-centered exhibition of European art of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries.

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) respectfully requests a $100,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support "Renaissance Woman" [working title], a temporary exhibition on view in Baltimore from October 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024. Curated at the BMA by Dr. Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, "Renaissance Woman" will be the first North American thematic exhibition in over 40 years to present an expansive female artist-centered approach to European art of the 15th through 18th centuries. The exhibition will bring together approximately 150 objects exclusively made by women artists from collections across North America and Europe, as well as select private loans. It will be accompanied by comprehensive didactic materials and a robust slate of interpretive humanities and educational programs, along with a fully illustrated 250-page catalogue.