Now Be Here began in 2016 at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Los Angeles, where over 700 women, women-identifying and non-binary artists gathered together. The resulting group photograph immediately went viral. The project traveled to the Brooklyn Museum and Perez Art Museum in Miami and then to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.. 

In July of 2020, the project launched its revised website. This is a free visual artist directory for international and national women and non-binary artists, as well as an archive documenting past events and programs. Additionally, it has an artist resource section with toolkits for empowering women and non-binary artists for the success and longevity of their practices. We now have nearly 1,000 artists in the directory.