The Women With Impact series is part of the exhibition Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Night Sky at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California.

Co-curated by the Wende’s Curatorial Department and NASA historian Lois Rosson, Competing Cosmologies explores how new discoveries in space exploration during and after the Cold War have inspired visual artists around the world. Organized in four sections — Astronomy, the Space Race, Futurisms, and Aliens — the exhibition brings together artists from the East, the West, and the Global South, tracing how they responded to advances in space science and technology and connected these discoveries to their own cultural contexts.

The exhibition combines historical artifacts, including a full-scale model of Sputnik-1, an original meteorite, and cosmos-themed sculptures, with contemporary and Cold War-era artwork inspired by the cosmos.

More about the exhibition here.

Dates: November 7, 2026 – October 17, 2027