Guerrilla Girls Take On Beverly This Weekend

This weekend Beverly residents are invited to hear from the internationally renowed Guerilla Girls, an anonymous, feminist-activist collective at Montserrat College of Art's two-day academic symposium on Agents of Change: Art and Activism. 

The Guerrilla Girls, artists and academics will approach the topic of art and activism as it relates to art history and contemporary issues in a political climate where injustice and equality are at the top of the news.  

Friday sessions and Saturday workshops will include topics dealing with social activism, politics, war, cultural conscience, environmental embodiment, the Occupy Movement’s aesthetics and many more.

For years the Guerrilla Girls have been stirring up audiences with presentations while wearing their infamous gorilla masks across the United States and internationally.

The keynote presentation by Guerrilla Girls, Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, on Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m., will reveal how they create their posters, books, billboards and actions. They will also share trade secrets about how to use facts and humor to expose discrimination and corruption in art, politics and pop culture. Registration costs vary, please check the website for details. 

The multimedia, expansive exhibition, Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond, spans all four of Montserrat’s galleries, and was curated by Neysa Page Lieberman from Columbia College Chicago. The exhibition illuminates and contextualizes the important historical and ongoing work of these highly original, provocative and influential artists who champion feminism and social change. The exhibition is part of a college-wide semester-long focus on Art and Activism.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Beverly Cultural Council. This exhibition is organized by Columbia College, Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the study of women and Gender in Arts and Media and the A+D Gallery, Chicago, Il.

Courtesy of Montserrat College of Art.