Guerrilla Girls: Thou Must Collect And Exhibit More Art By Women!

Guerrilla Girls is an American group of feminist masked avengers working for equal rights for female visual artists. They have been dedicated to this cause since 1985. Here is a few quotes from their latest newsletter:

‘All over the world, we meet lots of people – age 8 to 80 – who are unafraid to call themselves feminists, and who use feminism as a platform for art, activism and culture jamming. The “f” word lives! Women’s Rights, Civil Rights and GLBT Rights are the great human rights movements of our time. The world is slowly changing, but there’s still a really long way to go. (…)

DO WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR 1986 POSTER?
Gender equality is now the law in Spain. State-funded museums must do better by women artists. We spoke at two events in Spain recently to brainstorm how to implement this initiative. A conference called by Xabier Arakistain, director of the Montehermoso Cultural Center (lots of great shows there, by the way) gathered international museum curators, government officials, and artists’ groups to talk about how the new law might work. We learned something astounding: there are European curators and museum directors who have made it their personal – and very public – mission to increase the number of women artists in their collections. Time for US museums to do what Spain, the Tate Modern, London and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm are doing: collect and exhibit more art by women.

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We are so lucky to be able to do this work and to travel around talking about it. Thanks so much for the thousands of emails every year. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, talk about the issues with your friends, and do your own culture jamming. To schedule an appearance by the Guerrilla Girls, contact fridakahlo@guerrillagirls.com. 
 
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