March 1–April 21, 2012
Opening:
March 1, 2012, 5–8pm, A+D Gallery and Glass Curtain Gallery
A+D Gallery
Columbia College Chicago
619 S Wabash Avenue, 1st floor, Chicago, IL 60605
312-369-8687
Glass Curtain Gallery
Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Avenue, 1st floor, Chicago, IL 60605
312-369-6643
Hours:
Mon–Sat 11–5pm, Thurs 11–8pm
PROGRAMMING:
March 1: Public Conversation with the Guerrilla Girls, led by exhibition curator and partners. Q&A session will follow.
The Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash, 1st floor
6–7pm
March 2: Educator/Student/Activist Open House and conversation with Chicago-area educators, students and activists with the Guerrilla Girls. Please RSVP for this program to [email protected]
The Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash, 1st floor
11.30am–1pm
Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond, a major presentation of the collective, illuminates and contextualizes the important past and ongoing work of these highly original, provocative and influential artists who champion feminism and social change. A selection of the group’s most iconic campaigns and actions from the 80’s and 90’s foregrounds their most daring and rarely seen international projects, which trace the Guerrilla Girls’ artistic and activist influence around the globe. The exhibition’s installations are punctuated by documentary material including ephemera from famous actions, behind-the-scenes photos and secret anecdotes that reveal the Guerrilla Girls’ process and the events that drive their incisive institutional interventions. Visitors can peruse the artists’ favorite “love letters and hate mail,” drawn from almost three decades of humorous, heart-warming and shocking communications, and are invited to contribute their own views to an interactive wall installation. This multimedia, expansive exhibition illustrates that the work of the anonymous, feminist-activist Guerrilla Girls is as vital and revolutionary as ever.
Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond is curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Visit the following webpages:
A+D Gallery
www.colum.edu/adgallery
Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
www.colum.edu/deps
CONTACT
Exhibition information: Mark Porter, [email protected]
Press inquiries: Steve Kauffman, [email protected]
This exhibition is partially supported by The Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces, a division of Student Life, entirely supported by the Student Activity Fee, the Leadership Donors of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago Foundation for Women, the Art + Design Department and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.