Guerilla Girls Are Not Ready To Make Nice; Exhibit Champions Feminism, Social Change March 1, 2012

This expansive multimedia exhibition illustrates that the work of the Guerrilla Girls is as vital and revolutionary as ever. Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond, a presentation of the Guerrilla Girls, illuminates and contextualizes the important historical and ongoing work of these anonymous, provocative and influential artists who champion feminism and social change. A selection of the group’s most iconic campaigns and actions from the 80s and 90s foregrounds their most daring and rarely seen international projects which trace the Guerrilla Girls' artistic and activist influence around the globe.

Exhibition: March 1-April 21

Opening Reception: March 1, 5-8 p.m.

Public Conversation: March 1, 6-7 p.m., at the Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, 1st floor. Conversation will feature an audience Q&A with the Guerrilla Girls as well as Neysa Page-Lieberman, exhibition curator and director, Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces; and Jane M. Saks, executive director, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media.

Educator/Student/Activist Open House: March 2, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., at the Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, 1st floor. Event will include an open house and conversation with Chicago-area educators, students and activists and the Guerrilla Girls. Please RSVP for this program to cmorgan@colum.edu.

Official Website: http://www.colum.edu/Student_Life/DEPS/glass-curtain-gallery/exhibitions/not-ready-to-make-nice-guerrilla-girls-in-the-artworld-and-beyond