Guerrilla Girls Takeover: Teen Council Kickoff Meeting
Walker Art Center "1750 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesTeen arts councils from around the Twin Cities meet to kick off the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover.
Teen arts councils from around the Twin Cities meet to kick off the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover.
Centering on common conceptual threads across their practices, Amanda Curreri and the Guerrilla Girls will consider visual strategies, how social justice and cultural topics inform their work, and invoking social activism as a methodology for engagement.
This discussion will broach a number of hot topics and personal perspectives focused on how young people who identify as women navigate the art world today.
The Guerrilla Girls have been asking emerging artists across the country: what makes you angry? This multi-generational panel will delve into the related topic of the role your status plays in your art practice.
Sara Suppan, exhibition curator and MCAD Guerrilla Girl intern, will join Megan Johnston, an original instigator of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover and executive director of the Rochester Art Center, and other invited artists to discuss understandings of selfhood in light of race and gender issues.
Youth Leadership Council members at Intermedia Arts will facilitate a discussion among youth artists in the gallery framed by the exhibition Hands Up, Don’t Shoot - HER and the themes of race, gender, equity, and social justice.
Get ready for a wild night with the fiercest feminists this side of the urban jungle. These pioneers of anonymous art activism will talk 30 years of art warfare and their tireless quest to build a better world armed with facts, humor and fake fur. With a special acoustic performance from Chastity Brown.