Empress Farah Pahlavi visited the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC
October 2006

Empress Farah Pahlavi visited the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on October 2006 for a museum tour with NMWA Founder Wilhelmina Holladay and luncheon organized by Board President Mary Mochary and Co-Director of the Shenson Chamber Music Concerts Gilan Corn. Empress Pahlavi was given a special tour of the museum's permanent collection and Library and Research Center (LRC) by Mrs. Holladay. LRC Director Sharon Wasserman showed the Empress several vertical files on Iranian women artists housed in the LRC's Archives on Women Artists which contains biographical information, exhibition announcements and catalogues, and news articles about over 19,000 women artists of all time periods and nationalities.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, founded in 1981, is the only museum exclusively dedicated to recognizing the contributions of women artists by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and teaching the public about their accomplishments.

Mrs. Holladay shows Empress Pahlavi a vertical file of an Iranian artist in NMWA?s Archives on Women Artists (next to Gilan Corn- Carol Lascaris (Board President Emerita)

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