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    The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist artists established in 1984 who use guerrilla tactics like posters, billboards, and stickers to promote gender equality and women in the arts. They wear gorilla masks to remain anonymous and have members worldwide. Their art critiques the lack of representation of women and minority artists in major museums and calls out institutions for discrimination. Some of their projects have been in major cities and art venues around the world to bring attention to issues of gender, race, and representation in the art world.

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    The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist artists established in 1984 who use guerrilla tactics like posters, billboards, and stickers to promote gender equality and women in the arts. They wear gorilla masks to remain anonymous and have members worldwide. Their art critiques the lack of representation of women and minority artists in major museums and calls out institutions for discrimination. Some of their projects have been in major cities and art venues around the world to bring attention to issues of gender, race, and representation in the art world.

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    The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist artists established in 1984 who use guerrilla tactics like posters, billboards, and stickers to promote gender equality and women in the arts. They wear gorilla masks to remain anonymous and have members worldwide. Their art critiques the lack of representation of women and minority artists in major museums and calls out institutions for discrimination. Some of their projects have been in major cities and art venues around the world to bring attention to issues of gender, race, and representation in the art world.

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    Guerilla Girls

    By Fallon Foley
    Who are the Guerrilla Girls?

    Group of feminist artists.

    ● Established in New York City in 1984 and is known for using guerrilla tactics (especially guerrilla art) to promote women in
    the arts.
    ● Members of the original group always wear gorilla masks and often, but not always, miniskirts and fishnet stockings while
    appearing as Guerrilla Girls.
    ● hey proclaim that no one, not even their husbands, boyfriends, and families, knows their identities, except, they joke, their
    hairdressers.
    ● They also refuse to state how many Girls there are in total. Their membership is unknown, but has now grown to include
    members worldwide, including both British and French sectors .
    What does guerrilla mean? What is their Art Practice?

    They regularly inject feminist themes and examine the lack of female representation in the art world throughout history.

    ● Strategies employed by the Guerilla Girls:


    ● Advertisements in Art Magazines and Newspapers –Many actually name names and wag fingers at the most
    white male-centric curators and institutions.
    ● Secret letters to [sexist] gallery owners and art critics.
    ● Infiltration of Art Hierarchies with ‘spot-on’ stickers
    ● Postcards.
    ● Posters
    ● Wear Gorilla masks in Public and answer to names of often unrecognised dead female artists In private –go
    about their lives as artists, curators, art historians.
    What have they done?

    They’ve unveiled anti-film industry billboards in Hollywood just in time for the Oscars, dissed the Museum of
    Modern Art, New York, at its own Feminist Futures Symposium, and created large scale projects for the Venice
    Biennale; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Istanbul; Mexico City; London; Athens; Rotterdam; Bilbao; Sarajevo;
    Shanghai; Ireland; Krakow and Montreal.
    2001
    In the spring of 1997, Margit Rowell, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organized a show called "Objects
    of Desire: the Modern Still Life. Our supporters sent her thousands of these cards urging her to change the title to quote .The
    Objects of MOMA's Desires are Still White Males." She never relented or added more women artists or male artists of
    colour, but every art review of the exhibition noted her discriminating ways.

    1997
    Assigning commemorative months to social issues has become another form of tokenism. This poster is a favourite on
    university campuses where African Americans and women always get art shows in February and March.

    1990
    1992
    1992
    Guerrilla Girls carried this poster in a pro-choice march on Washington D.C., urging right-to-lifers—and the Catholic Church, “to repent their
    sinful, modern ideas”.
    1992
    A satirization of Bush's colour-coded terror alert
    system. Chart lists some of the terrible things his
    administration is doing to erode women's rights.
    Originally did this poster to accompany an article
    called Bush's War on Women.

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