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edits to feminist art movement in the US

I wanted to add a few events to the Feminist art movement in the United States page, since every decade there are "key activities" listed, which are mostly galleries or exhibitions dedicated to a feminist issue. Each decade looks a little skimpy, so I want to add some more "key activities" to some of the decades.

For the 1980's portion of the page there is just one sentence under the subtitle "Mass Communication". The sentence reads "To address the inequity faced by women artists, graphic mass communication, using refined slogans and graphics was a vehicle by which Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer sought to increase awareness." I thought since this article has a couple paragraphs dedicated to the Guerrilla Girls movement, I could add a little more to the art Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer did, which can help explain the idea of "Mass Communication" in the 1980's.

Aecimaru (talk) 20:18, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

edits for feminist art movement in the u.s.

1980's key activities discusses barbara kruger's mass communication. want to add:

link the term mass communication

"the process by which a person, group of people, or large organization creates a message and transmits it through some type of medium to a large, anonymous, heterogeneous audience."

1990's key activies- want to add:

The Riot grrrl movement was focused mostly on music, but the DIY aspect of this scene included feminist knowledge in forms of underground zines, which included poems, articles, comics, etc.

2010 key activites- want to add:

In 2013, Michol Hebron started the "Gallery Tally" project, where Hebron had different galleries across Los Angeles and New York make posters showing the uneven representation in the art world. She found that about 70% of artists represented in these two cities are men. Hebron has extended this project outside of L.A., and now continues the project all over the states, with updates to her blog.

In 2015, Hebron went through every cover published from Artforum. Since 1962, there have been 526 different monthly covers. Hebron found only 18% feature art by women, and male artists made 74% of the covers.

Aecimaru (talk) 21:44, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

more editions to fem art movement.

In 1980's add:

Kiki Smith

As the art scene became more politicized in the 1980's, Kiki Smith's art work also became more political. Her work started "involving issues like abortion, race and AIDS." When asked if she considered herself a feminist artist, Smith responded, "Yes, I would say that generationally I am, and I would say that without the feminist movement I wouldn’t exist; and an enormous amount of the artwork that we take for granted wouldn’t exist; and a lot of the subject matter that we assume can be encompassed by art wouldn’t exist. The feminist movement exponentially expanded what art is, and how we look at art, and who is considered to be included in the discourse of art-making. I think that it caused a tremendous, radical change. You don’t want to have a cultural notion that one specific gender embodies creativity. All humanity – and all aspects of gender and sexuality and how people define themselves – are inherently creative. It’s against the interests of the culture at large not to embrace feminism as a model, just like many other models of liberation, because they don’t only liberate women, they liberate everybody."

in key activities of 2010's, add:

Stop Telling Women To Smile is was an ongoing, travelling series that started in Fall of 2012. Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, started this project in Brooklyn, NYC, but had also been in Chicago, Paris, and Mexico City. Street art such as STWTS is a modern way of mass communication art.

"Guarded" was a photography project by artist Taylor Yocom in 2015, in which Yocom photographed students from University of Iowa, showing what these women carried with them when they had to walk alone at night.

Aecimaru (talk) 19:09, 30 November 2016 (UTC)