Guerilla Girls
Steffen Francisco

The Guerilla Girls is an artist group and movement dating back to 1985.  Two speakers of the group came to Milwaukee to speak at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design out of the group’s over 55 woman roster.  The drive behind the collection of female artists is to call out, highlight and combat discrimination, misogyny and sexism in the art community and the world at large.

With shows, installations and counter-advertising in major world travel nexūs such as New York, Athens and Istanbul, the group has sought to raise awareness of the disparity of representation in the art world for women and especially women of color.  At times, their work has also crossed over into other arenas of feminism outside of the art world.

One of their biggest and repeated points is the amount of public money that is spent on white, male artists in public museum space.  As a connected point, their advertising also notes that while most of the artists are white and male, most of the nude artwork is female.