A Vision of Nature: American Women Artists

Oct 3, 2025 - Mar 22, 2026

In partnership with American Women Artists (AWA), the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) is presenting A Vision of Nature: American Women Artists. This is the 9th juried exhibition for AWA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the inspiration, celebration, and encouragement of women in the visual fine arts that has previously worked with several other museums across the country to fulfill its initiative of presenting 25 museum exhibitions within 25 years.

For the NSLM’s exhibition, members of AWA were invited to take inspiration from artworks in the NSLM’s permanent collection and expand on the theme, “a vision of nature.” Of the more than 500 artworks submitted, 56 paintings, works on paper, scratchboard paintings, and sculptures representing a wide variety of techniques and stylistic approaches were selected for inclusion. These never-before exhibited artworks celebrate the talent of contemporary female artists across North America, and the NSLM is honored to showcase these women as well as this powerful selection of landscapes, human and animal portraits, and still lifes.