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Guerilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls : Feminist Masked Avengers

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  • ABOUT Guerrilla Girls

    The Guerrilla Girls is a group of anonymous radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985. Their creative postering campaigns focus on gender and racial imbalances and stereotyping in the art world, film industry, and popular culture. Books include The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers, The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes, and The Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book. Learn more at http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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We're anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, Zorro and the Lone Ranger.       

Since their first riotous appearance in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have dedicated themselves to exposing sexism, racism, and corruption in the art world, the film industry, and popular culture. Adopting the names of dead women artists and decked out in full jungle drag, these anonymous avengers use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to skewer institutional bias and inequality. In this program, the Guerrilla Girls give a guided tour through the history of their many public interventions, perform satirical skits, and inspire us to create our own sophisticated acts of aesthetic resistance.

Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art and Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.

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