Field Trip- Milwaukee Art Museum

Helen Levitt
by: Allison Krenz

Street photography is a craft best mastered with time. Being able to visit the Milwaukee Art Museum and see a body of work that spans an entire career, showcases this best. The installation included Levitt's black and white prints, color prints, as well as her original slides. Moving around the gallery was like wandering the streets with Levitt herself. Children are a reoccurring subject for her, as well as dogs, cars, and New York's working class. 

It's Levitt's attention to detail, but also her happenstance-esque framing that makes her images so compelling. While it is a result of having years of photos to choose from, it is still an impressive feat to have so many interesting photos come together into one exhibition. 

Artist Talk- Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls

by: Allison Krenz

On February 22nd The famous Guerrilla Girls visited MIAD to talk about their movement. In a hot, crowded room, the Guerrilla Girls emerged, masks and bananas included, to talk about intersectional Feminism, and why now, more than ever, they need to be making work. 

While carefully avoiding his name, and instead replacing it with "45" The Guerrilla Girls addressed how we are living in a time where politically, women are not in a safe place. Most of the Guerrilla girls' work has focused around museums, and the wage gap, which is what defines most conventional feminist arguments; but the Guerrilla Girls should also be recognized as artists who expand their work to include every issue. Women need to pay attention to the political climate right now, as our reproductive rights and in the case of women of color, civil rights, are currently in the hands of conservative men.

Women have the power to be heard, and with recent Women's marches across the country, now is the time to spread Feminism as far as it can go, because Feminism is an issue of rights for everyone. The more we work to make that understood, the closer we get to true equality.

Feminism is too often criticized as "shouty" by those who shout the loudest about overreach of feminists' issues. By remaining anonymous, and making work for every woman on every issue, the Guerrilla Girls embrace intersectional feminism and are role models for all Feminists.