The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) is a New York nonprofit founded in 1889 as the Woman's Art Club of New York, formed by five artists — Anita C. Ashley, Adele Frances Bedell, Elizabeth S. Cheever, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, and Grace Fitz-Randolph — to create exhibition opportunities for women artists shut out of major institutions of the era. It became the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1913 and adopted its current name in 1941. In 1925 the group opened what is described as the first American gallery devoted entirely to women artists, and in 1988 it held a widely noted centennial exhibition. Its mission is to foster awareness of and interest in visual art made by women through exhibitions, education, and scholarships; more than 200 works from its history are held at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum.