Year of Women Artists

The Year of Women Artists at The Westmoreland will feature a dynamic roster of exhibitions and events throughout 2025, including a focus on important American women artists from a variety of backgrounds and eras.

Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists

February 9–May 18
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists highlights artists whose legacies were shaped by their experiences in the American South. Featuring over 40 artists, including Anni Albers, Elaine de Kooning, and Alma Thomas, the exhibition spans the 1940s to the 2000s.

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Aaronel deRoy Gruber

January 18–November 2
The Westmoreland opened in 1959 with the aim of building an American art collection that captured the spirit of Pennsylvania art. Pennsylvania in Progress honors this vision by juxtaposing works from the inaugural exhibition, 250 Years of Art in Pennsylvania, with recent acquisitions, including photography by Pittsburgh artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber.

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A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929

April 11–December 31
A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929 showcases remarkable depictions of the female body by women artists, highlighting their subversion of gender and sexuality conventions.

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Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Two Children

Returns February 22
This visitor favorite returns to The Westmoreland after being part of Mary Cassatt at Work, a prestigious, nationally-touring exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Westmoreland welcomes the curator of this exhibition for a talk on May 4 .

 

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Cecilia Beaux: Inventing the Modern Portrait

Opens June 13
This exhibition will unpack Beaux’s path-breaking approach to crafting the modern portrait.

The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis

September 7, 2025 – January 4, 2026
This exhibition celebrates Catlett’s achievements in sculpture and printmaking and honors a half-century of her artistic activism in support of women.

 

Brynn Hurlstone: Resonance

Opens September 7
Resonance invites the viewer to engage with precarity, to physically overcome their hesitation to do the wrong thing, and to engender the transformation that can only be achieved through risk. Glass, water, steel, silk, and rust embody and contain firsthand stories of intimate partner violence in an immersive installation which beckons for engagement and responds. Over time, presence and connection accumulate to permanently alter the environment and each object within it. Unforced material transformation and abstracted narrative explore intention, impact, unease, and the rippling nuance of personal and societal responses to abuse. In Resonance, the echoes of unseen humanity ask that you slow down, consider, and approach the unspoken.