| Event Description |
San Diego Mesa College Art Department and Humanities Institute is pleased to present an evening performance/workshop with founding members, “Kathe Kollwitz” and “Frida Kahlo” of the Guerrilla Girls, whose members assume the identities of dead female artists as pseudonyms to maintain anonymity. The Guerrilla Girls have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. They use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny. The members wear gorilla masks to focus on issues rather than on their personalities. Declaring themselves the conscience of culture, they have become the feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger. An evening spent with the Guerrilla Girls has become mainstream essential to understanding the next phase of feminist art history. |
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