Guerrilla Girls
President Trump Announces New Commemorative Months
2016
18 x 24″
not framed
https://www.guerrillagirls.com
About Guerrilla Girls
“How can artists and creators cross cultural boundaries to communicate with people who traditionally would not agree with them?
We started by asking questions publicly. We really wanted to be transformative at the time; so many people working in museums and galleries really thought that they were participating in a meritocracy. We just kept plugging away at it. We went after galleries, we went after male artists who were shown in galleries that wouldn’t show their female colleagues. We realized that it was doubly hard for women of color and that they’d been tokenized. One thing led to another and we developed this critique and it was all about changing the art world, not just complaining about it—although we are professional complainers. It is always with the intention that we are transforming people’s thinking.
How can we go about transforming people’s thinking?
We have our way of doing it. I’m sure there are ways of doing it that other people can figure out. Have you seen the poster we did on how we think Trump is going to change all the commemorative months? We’re also considering going after the figures in the art world who participated in Trump’s transition team. The art world—at the level of fancy collectors, auctions, museum and museum trustees—is filled with Trump supporters. The community that they are making a ton of money from don’t have the same values.”
– Molly Minta, “Poster Child: An Interview with Frida Kahlo, Guerrilla Girl,” thefineprintmag.org, February 8, 2017