Event

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Tuesday, August 16 at 7:30pm
Members $9 / Public $13 Includes Reception

For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of
hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators and critics who
shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously
undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into
art structures. !Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the
Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and
explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against
the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against
major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women's art
of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political
organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and
Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women's Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and
landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art. USA, 2010, 83 min.