ACTIVIST ART
IS VIRTUAL …
OUR FALL/WINTER 2023/24
WORKSHOPS/LECTURES/PARTIES
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2024!
PUSH/PUSHBACK, 9 STEPS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH ACTIVISM AND ART
1) ACTIVIST ART: VIRTUAL POSTER MAKING WORKSHOP
Address issues effecting you within your community, the nation or across the globe in this 2.5 hour poster making workshop. The workshop begins with a discussion of what makes a good piece of protest art and the evolution and philosophy behind some of Guerrilla Girls / Guerrilla Girls On Tour’s famous posters and street theatre actions. Participants break out into small groups to work collaboratively on creating a new poster. Works-in-progress are presented and the workshop ends with a planning session that walks participants through the process of distributing their ideas. For anyone with a passion for combing activism and art.
2) ACTIVIST ART: PUSH/PUSHBACK, 9 Steps to Make a Difference with Activism and Art.
An interactive presentation detailing how one person can use their creativity to push against the status quo. PUSH/PUSHBACK is an insiders look at what went behind the posters, protests, fax blitzes, speak outs and street theatre actions the Guerrilla Girls used to attack and expose sexism and racism in the art and theatre world and beyond. It includes a step by step guide to the art of collaboration, how to gather stats, generate ideas, fund projects, ensure response and guarantee momentum. It also sheds light on the use of storytelling to weave together the fabric of a movement designed to effect change. Participants receive a free download of the ebook. 50 minutes.
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UPCOMING LECTURES and WORKSHOPS:
FALL/WINTER 2023/2024
ALL WRITE, COLUMBIA FALL WRITING WORKSHOP. Apply by September 22, 2023.
ACTIVIST ART: VIRTUAL POSTER MAKING WORKSHOP – BOOK NOW
COMING UP!
NOW BOOKING IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL LECTURES and POSTER MAKING WORKSHOPS.
FALL 2023 tour includes stops in the California, Delaware,
Ohio and New Jersey!
CHECK OUT POSTERS CREATED IN PAST WORKSHOPS
Your lecture and workshop inspired our our students to find new ways to have a voice and work for social justice. – Christina Penn-Goetsch, Cornell College
Inspiring, insightful, hilarious and fun – PUSH/PUSHBACK challenged the audience to think about how misogyny and sexism infiltrate the arts and left us with ideas about how we can use activism and art to change the world. – Missoula Art Museum
AN INTERVIEW WITH A GUERRILLA GIRL – SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES
Donna Kaz is a writer, director, choreographer and activist, who has led the theatre troupe, “Guerrilla Girls on Tour” for the past two decades. A Guerrilla Girl herself, who has written a memoir entitled UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour, Lauren Goldberg, our vintage poster specialist, asked Donna to unmask yet again and share some insight into her own experiences with the movement.
Movements like Feminism and Black Lives Matter represent Intersectionality.
More from Padmini Vaidyanathan and Arnica Kala at thequint.com
WE LOVE MASKS!
