Thanks to Ray Anne and others who followed up on this topic. And thank you Mary for giving us your experience with the group. Any more thoughts on the subject? Let's put this on our WomArt RoundTable meeting agenda in St. Louis. Remember, Everyone's welcome! The Women and Art Round Table [WOMART] is scheduled for Sunday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm See you there.
Susan Clarke
DePaul University
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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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