About the
Guerrilla Girls
About the Guerrilla Girls
Twin Cities Takeover
THE GUERRILLA GIRLS ARE ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND TRUTH-TELLERS
For over 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls have been exposing sexism and racism in the art world, politics and pop culture. Disguised in gorilla masks, these anonymous artists and activists challenge stereotypes and the status quo with no-holds-barred honesty and wit. Their posters, billboards, books, videos and live lectures make you laugh while making you think. The Guerrilla Girls have been keeping it real (in fake fur) for three decades. And as long as inequality exists in the art world and culture at large, they’ll keep dishing out their furry, funny brand of justice.
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THE 2016 GUERRILLA GIRLS TWIN CITIES TAKEOVER
From January to March 2016 the Takeover will include over twenty arts and cultural organizations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and surrounding cities. From small non-profit art centers to major cultural institutions in the region, these partners will be highlighting gender and race inequalities, taking on stereotypes and hypocrisies, and promoting artistic expression by the often overlooked and underrepresented.
The Guerrilla Girls’ own projections, posters, and public events will attest to the ongoing need for individual and collective activism. In true guerrilla fashion, everyone is welcome to take on impromptu activities and actions. The Guerrilla Girls are rallying fellow feminists, artists, and activists to join them in a collective roar for change.
WHY DO THE GUERRILLA GIRLS WEAR MASKS?
The group’s members wear gorilla masks during public appearances to protect their anonymity, and to keep the focus on the issues, not their identities. As part of the disguise, each Guerrilla Girl uses the pseudonym of a late female artist, like Edmondia Lewis, Zubeida Agha, and Frida Kahlo. Their identities are secret but their message is clear: End inequality in the art world, politics and pop culture.
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Guerrilla Girls Takeover Organizers Named 2016 Changemakers
Citing the project as “the largest arts collaboration ever in the Twin Cities,” Minnesota Women’s Press named the organizers of the Guerrilla Girls Takeover its list.
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Guerrilla Girls growl and take over Twin Cities arts organizations
Consciousness-raising feminist group is taking over Minnesota galleries, museums and storefronts and reaching out to area teens.
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S(h)ecrets of the City: We’re Pumped About the Guerrilla Girls
Secrets of the City explains why they’re “pumped” for the Guerrilla Girls takeover, with local illustrator Lillian Bassman picking her featured GG Takeover events.
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Art Bus to link Rochester, Twin Cities for Guerrilla Girls ‘takeover’
The Rochester Art Center is launching a pilot art bus program this week., with a bus shuttling guests from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Rochester for the Rochester leg of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover.
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Guerrilla Girls swing into Twin Cities for art-world ‘takeover’
Kristin Tillotson explains how the Guerrilla Girls’ “takeover” of museums aims to shed light on sexism in the arts world.
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Let These Masked Feminists Explain How Depressing Gender Inequality In Art Is
The fantastically radical Guerrilla Girls went on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to talk about women and art.
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Guerrilla Girls on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Did you miss the Guerrilla Girls on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday? Watch online.
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Art activists Guerrilla Girls take over the Twin Cities
New York Times (Women in the World)
After three decades of “creative activism,” the feminist masked avengers have planned an ambitious multi-venue festival that targets sexism and racism in the realms of art, politics and pop culture.
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Taste as a Political Matter: Coco Fusco on the Guerrilla Girls
In 1986, Coco Fusco stumbled upon her “first encounter with a full-on feminist art intervention”: a show at the Palladium in New York curated by the Guerrilla Girls. “This was an activist approach that I could connect with, as it spoke truth to power playfully, with wit and style,” she writes—one that influenced how she makes art today.
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Guerrilla Girls ready to ‘take over’ Twin Cities arts scene
The Pioneer Press calls the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover “a big hairy deal in oh-so-many ways for the Twin Cities art community.”
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Feminist Masked Avengers: A Q&A with Frida Kahlo
“The world actually needs more feminist masked avengers than just the Guerilla Girls,” says Frida Kahlo in this interview that covers the Guerrilla Girls history, humor, and hopes for feminism.
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Guerrilla Girls — anonymous activists and artists — to take over Twin Cities through March
The Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover launches Jan. 21-22, with kickoff events at MCAD, Mia, the Rochester Art Center, and the Walker Art Center. More than 30 arts and cultural organizations in the Twin Cities and surrounding cities will celebrate the Guerrilla Girls’ 30th anniversary.
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The 9 Events Worth Traveling For This January
Paris, Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco… Twin Cities! Condé Nast Traveler highlights the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover for exhibitions and events “that examine sexism, racism, and the pioneering history of the Guerrilla Girls themselves.”
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The 21 Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About Next Year… including the Guerrilla Girls
Huffington Post editors recommend 21 exhibitions throughout the country “that should definitely be put on your New Year’s to-do list”—including Art at the Center: Guerrilla Girls at the Walker Art Center.
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Art+Auction Includes the Guerrilla Girls in The Power 100 of 2015
Listed among auctioneers, patrons, and museum directors, the Guerrilla Girls are on Art+Auction’s The Power 100 list. “While their commentary on gender imbalance remains regrettably current, their latest campaign branches out to draw attention to growing income inequality in the art trade.”
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The Guerrilla Girls are coming
Dylan Thomas caught up with the Guerrilla Girls to talk about their way of using “creative complaining with humor and facts” to critique institutions.
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On Negotiating Conflict and Privilege: An Interview with the Guerrilla Girls
Sheila Regan sat down with the Guerrilla Girls in Minneapolis this October to discuss their history, privilege, and challenges moving forward.
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St. Kate’s gears up for the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover
Bringing together students from the Artist’s Coalition, Black and Muslim Student Associations and Women’s studies class, the Guerilla Girls visit St. Kate’s University and amp up for next year’s takeover.
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GUERRILLA GIRLS TAKE OVER
The Guerilla Girls? In Minneapolis? This feminist collective is taking over the Twin Cities, in one of the largest arts collaborations to date! It’s no secret—they might even make a statement!
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Guerrilla Girls to take over Minneapolis art spots in 2016
The Guerrilla Girls are coming in from the cold! But instead of critique, they’re getting creative, collaborating with the top artist organizations in the Twin Cities come 2016.
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The Guerrilla Girls Turn 30
The Guerilla Girls celebrate their 30th birthday and recount the origins of the movement, as well as documenting the dedicated years spent battling ignorance and discrimination in art communities everywhere.
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The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages
When you’ve spent 30 years wearing a gorilla mask, as the women known by the aliases Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz have, certain behavior becomes second nature.
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Guerrilla Girls, Going and Going …
Thirty years after the feminist activists began, the Guerrilla Girls are still going. Their identities remain a secret but their fight for equality in the art world still attracts legions of fans.
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Billionaire Bothering with the Guerrilla Girls – Exclusive Video!
Join the Guerrilla Girls as they advocate for representation, living wages and protest the luxury takeover of the art world. With stickerbombs and projections onto New York Galleries, Dear Art Collector is a thought-provoking force to be reckoned with.
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The Guerrilla Girls: 30 years of punking art world sexism
After 30 years of confronting inequality in the art world, The Guerrilla Girls explain what’s changed—and what hasn’t. The Girls discuss the motive behind the masks, and the continuous mission to bring to light the racism and sexism in the art industry.
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