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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of “Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout” with Dr. Vesela Sretenović
November 5 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Anonymous Was A Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout at The Kreeger Museum, led by exhibition curators Dr. Vesela Sretenović.
Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout, dovetails with the recent group exhibition, Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years organized by and presented at the New York University’s Grey Art Museum, April 1-July 19, 2025, and co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenović.
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’s essay A Room of One’s Own, which underscores the challenges that creative women have historically faced in a male-dominated society.
The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition, curated by Sretenović, 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 Renée Stout (AWAW 1999). While the Grey exhibition featured works created around the time of each artist’s award, The Kreeger Museum’s 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’s exhibition not only celebrates artists based in the DMV area —aligning with the Museum’s mission—but 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.
Program Admission:
- General Admission – $30
- ArtTable Members – $20
- ArtTable Member Guests – $25
All registrants for this event will be provided with a
20% discount on ArtTable’s limited edition scarf
celebrating 25 Years of Anonymous Was a Woman,
created in 2021 in conjunction with ArtTable’s 45 year
anniversary and the year Susan Unterberg received
the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award.
Made of 100% silk habotai, only a handful of scarves
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About the Curator
Dr. Vesela Sretenović has been a long-time curator of modern and contemporary art with special interest in cross-disciplinary art practices and in bridging theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience. Most recently (2009-23) she served as Director of Contemporary Art Initiatives and Academic Affairs at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC. During her tenure, she had organized Intersections, a series of ongoing contemporary art projects, as well as monographic exhibitions of prominent artists including Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Antony Gormley, and the first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez. Additionally, she oversaw academic partnership initiatives with the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Virginia (UVA). Prior to The Phillips, Sretenović worked at Brown University, the University at Buffalo SUNY, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is a frequent visiting faculty, teaching modern and contemporary art history and theory, and works as an independent curator. Sretenović holds a BA in Art History from University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Humanities from Syracuse University.
Image credits:
Pictured (left to right): Detail, linn meyers, The Moon is a Thief, 2025, acrylic ink and acrylic gouache on linen. Courtesy of the Artist. Detail, Jae Ko, Rhombus #3, 2025, rolled paper, pigmented ink. Courtesy of Opera Gallery/Artist. Detail, Joyce J. Scott, Untitled Fairy Tale from The Graphic Novel Series, 2019-2020, glass beads, thread, wire. Courtesy of Goya Contemporary Gallery/Artist. Detail, Renée Stout, I Trust My Third Eye, 2025, acrylic on panel. Courtesy of Marc Straus Gallery/Artist.
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