38. Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community. The group employs cultural jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, and public appearances to expose discrimination and corruption. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks and use pseudonyms that refer to deceased female artists. Their identities are concealed because issues matter more than individual identities, they want the focus to be on the issues, not on their personalities or their own work.



Guerrilla Girls member Käthe Kollwitz and Zuckerman discuss facts, writing museum wall labels, the power of killer statistics, how Guerrilla Girls get added, changing people’s minds, being intersectional feminists, broadening museum collections, and how the further you get from New York the representation of women and artists of color in museums improves!

References:

Guerilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly - https://www.guerrillagirls.com/books

Kynaston McShine - https://ccs.bard.edu/people/2318-kynaston-mc-shine

Alma Thomas - https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alma-thomas-4778

Mary Cassat - https://www.marycassatt.org

Georgia O’keeffe - https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe/

Meret Oppenheim - https://m.theartstory.org/artist/oppenheim-meret/

Helen Frankenthaler - https://www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/artworks/paintings

The Met - https://www.metmuseum.org/

Poster - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guerrilla-girls-do-women-have-to-be-naked-to-get-into-the-met-museum-p78793

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