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Hoop dreams Sebadoh TBTN Men and women t-Birds Lo-fi band goes disco Vancouver women prepare for a new season at the Rage take it back our midst Sandra Cheung and Theresa Chaboyer in America and showed the ratio of male to female faculty members." University of Pennsylvania topped go ape with the Guerrilla Girls the' list with an even ratio, while the University of who brought their own brand of South Carolina had zero female faculty .members to teach their students, of which 90% were female. art feminism and fun to the As a BFA student here at UBC, I was-interested in Vogue last Sunday. the male-to-female ratio within our own Fine Arts Faculty. The results are eleven male and seven by Sandra Cheung female faculty members. Not too bad, but certainly not very good either. Since 1990, the .Morris and The Guerrilla Girls swung into town last Sunday, Helen Belkin Art Gallery has had a mere seven armed with organically grown bananas and masked women artists showing on their, own, compared to in ferocious gorilla masks. * '-•'•' sixteen male one-person shows. That's over two to Who are the Guerrilla Girls? They are the self-pro onel Is there any.excuse? As u non-Caucasian claimed 'Conscience of the Art World." The woman, maybe I need to rethink my career plans Guerrilla Girls originated in 1984 in response to an or maybe I should join the Guerrilla Girls' t exhibition at the prestigious and revered Museum The Guerrilla Girls have been around for over ten ^•Their posters«are.'aimed*at.'all*levelsof"11ie' art worlds One-- poster of Modern Art in New York, where there were only years, but it's evident they haven't become a dated sixteen women artists but 150 male artists. Finding directed ...toward*collectors reads:t3rvhen. Racism and Sexism.:are .nc '80s phenomenon^ Instead, they have continued to longer;Fffshi(m.,<•; ^ * this gross underrepresentation just one example of challenge the old "male, pale. Vale" art institutions how the art world is infused with sexism, they pur 5* •.Theiaim of tee-GuerriJla^Girls is'.tb "take;charge'and stop feeling-pp^ And some of them are starting to listen. Some have .erles's!V-Gbi&equen&y$'the'Guerrilla Girls'haye;beconie''synonymous, sue ways to expel the sexist attitudes of art collec even told the Girls they didn't • ".% tors, artists, museums and galleries. - '•" '•' ?~'\ '"(] '^'wi'li female'empowermerit and - as a result,' their, name' has realize they were being discrimi . ••'".' A The fully attended three.o'clock show began with •' • '• -' *t,b'een'geiWraUzed-to.includtv'..TianyVgr'6ups of politicalh , natory until the Girls put up statis- " '' _•',.".- ••• ;t', ,',V. .-'; ^^^Vactivevfen^es*.^einale-ltid rock ban'ds,',"such"as.-Hoie Freida Kahlo and Kathe-Kollwitz (the names of dead tics on their showings. Others ha\e ' '/-'-,'• women artists that the girls use to stay anonymous) "-.•'.'. » ,.••-.',' .''X^^ancltBikinira^jvare^ofttjh*:described as:."guerrilia included women and non- . ;-_•' ... •girls'i ev'en'-.thbugh' thnv' are .riot; in reality,'meni reading letters^sent to them from supporters as well Caucasian artists out of puMic ' •.•• '": ,••• as some rather interesting letters from those hostile <Dersfbfimat groups?:.;-* »«~Ji.i;. .a-.* pressure rather than any MII *.•" >: •.:. \ ' to their efforts. cere desire to become less exrlu ' -if v. From there, the two Guerrilla Girls showed a col sive. Change I'IIIIIC!- slow, but tlie lection of their smart, funny and informative Guerrilla Girls are always there 1 posters. Using their favorite bold. type, an early subsequeridyslabelled" feministflbitches,- * whores] to shame the less responsive ior>sluts?»Gonsequently,viemrnists-' are. hghtinfij poster counts how many shows on women artists institutions four top New York galleries arid museums had dur Along v\ilh their first book, ing one year. The results: Metropolitan — 0. Confessions' nf Ihe GuvrrilLi Museum of Modern Art — 0. Whitney —, 1. Girls, the Girls have put out a Guggenheim — 0. These statistics do not need a '70s new book called The Guerrilla feminist's ranting and raving to get the message Girls Bedside Companion to the . across — the sexism is evident. History of Western .Art. Either of Another poster dealt with the painting of female these is sure to be an intrigu nudes. A sexy nude Grande Odalisque by Ingres is ing read, especially for any depicted with a gorilla.head substitution looking back one who missed the at the "male gaze". The text reads: "Do women have to &hows »•' - , be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum? Less c than 5% of the artists in the modern art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female." But the Guerrilla Girls, while focused on sex ism in the art world, have also directed their attention to other issues and injustices. They rec ognize that non-Caucasian artists also.have difficul ty breaking into the art world. In a cheekier poster, the'Guerrilla Girls propose a pop quiz: ' Q: If February is Black History Month and March is Women's History Month, what happens the rest of the year? A: Discrimination. As well as dealing with racial issues in the art " world, the Guerrilla Girls have tackled issues of • homelessness and even the American presidential 1 campaign. 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