The Mannix Show’s host Karyn Mannix will be present a riveting conversation about Arts Activism with two original/former Guerrilla Girls, Alice Neil and Romaine Brooks. Topics discussed will range from how the Guerilla Girls, as a group of activists, made such an impact on the art world, plus newer concerns for us, as a society, on how and where do we go from here in the arts and beyond. We may not have the answers but it’s a topic that is worth a good conversation.
The Guerilla Girls, founded in 1985, are a band of anonymous women artists who fought discrimination against women artists and artists of color in the art world. They wear gorilla masks and assume the identities of dead female artists, all to focus on the message. They have delivered this message in performances and presentations globally, from Australia to Europe, and all over the United States.
Their witty, pointed posters, plastered all over lower Manhattan, called out gallerists, curators, collectors, and critics for their complicity within this system. The Guerrilla Girls brought into public discourse, for the very first time, how this sustained discrimination axed women artists and artists of color out of exhibitions, museums, the art market -- and art history itself. A famous Guerrilla Girl poster reads. “You’re seeing less than half the picture without the vision of women artists and artists of color.”
* Signed, original posters will be available for sale.
