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The Guerrila Girls came to our museum this month as part of a teacher workshop to launch a new set of teaching posters the Education department developed.  The teaching posters feature 5 women artists.  The Guerrila girls then gave a presentation in the auditorium.  They performed a song (which was the world premier of it), gave a short overview (with slides) of their history up to the recent past, and spoke about the artists and posters a bit.

 

It was a very successful program, and attracted lots of general audience besides the workshop participants.  The historical overview of the GG’s was great and fun to see. I would have liked hearing more hard data about how women are faring in the visual arts now.  For ARLIS/NA, it might be interesting to build their visit around a particular concept/program in a similar fashion to what they did here.

 

 

 

Mary Wassermann

Slide Librarian and Associate Librarian

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

Ray Anne mentioned inviting the Guerrila Girls to an ARLIS/NA conference.

Here's one of the reasons why we should consider this:

 

www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/tragedy.html

 

I'd like to see what they would say about our profession.

 

--shannon

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Shannon Van Kirk

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Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056

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