Museums today cannot “rediscover” female artists fast enough, even though these very institutions chose not to discover them back in the day. Only select organizations, like the National Association of Women Artists (originally called the Women’s Art Club of New York), have relentlessly supported professional women artists. Founded in 1889, NAWA is the oldest such collective in the United States. Established by five artists, it provided an alternative to the male-only National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists in New York, which prohibited women from taking classes, holding leadership roles, and publicly exhibiting their work. Some key members include Mary Cassatt, Faith Ringgold, and Dorothy Dehner. For the association’s 135th anniversary, the Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857 galleries celebrate several of the thousands of women who joined NAWA. —Jeanne Malle