Exhibition Opening Today at the Renwick Gallery

The Renwick Invitational: Five Women in Craft opens today, inaugurating the Renwick Gallery's new biennial exhibition series.

The five women chosen for the inauguration of the Renwick Invitational are from different parts of the United States. Each is a recognized artist within her field and speaks with a clear and distinct voice in her work; Myra Mimlitsch Gray (metals), New York; Janel Jacobson (porcelain and netsuke-like miniatures), Minnesota; Mary Jackson (sweetgrass baskets), South Carolina; Sondra Sherman (jewelry), New York; and Consuelo Jiminez Underwood (fiber), California.

You are invited to tour this exhibition at noon today with Curator-in-Charge Kenneth R. Trapp, as he discusses the artists featured in this exhibition.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery is located at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, across from the White House.

Source: Exhibition press release text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999.

Pictured: Myra Mimlitsch Gray (born 1962), Sugar Bowl and Creamer III,1996, raised, formed, and constructed copper, 19 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery.