The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the only major museum in the world solely dedicated" to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts.

NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay.

Since opening its doors in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 4,500 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative art.

Highlights of the collection include works by Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, and Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun.

The museum occupies the old Masonic Temple, a building listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places.

While women artists have been involved in making art throughout history, their work often has not been as well acknowledged as that of men.

Often certain media are associated with women artists, such as textile arts.

Women's roles in relation to art, of course, vary in different cultures and communities.

Many art forms considered to be created predominantly by women have been historically dismissed from the art historical canon as craft, as opposed to fine art.

Women artists faced challenges due to gender biases in the mainstream fine art world.

They have often encountered difficulties in training, travelling and trading their work, and gaining recognition.

Beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists and art historians created a Feminist art movement that overtly addresses the role of women in the art world and explores the role women in art history and in society.

The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly and available by subscription.

The Advocate brand also includes a website.

Both magazine and website have an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts and entertainment of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people.

The magazine, established in 1967, is the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States and the only surviving one of its kind that was founded before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, an incident that is generally credited as the beginning of the LGBT rights movement.