If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many

If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019. Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.In Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases project, the artist documents the breadth of identities of Black lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa and its diaspora. Ongoing since 2006, Muholi’s series acknowledges that LBGTQ visibility exists in the face of discrimination and violence, yet is also a defiant assertion of self-possessed presence and resistance, a refusal to be silenced or shamed because of one’s identity. Experience two portraits in Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, closing today.Zanele Muholi (born Umlazi, South Africa, 1972) Zimaseka “Zim” Salusalu, Gugulethu, Cape Town, 2011. Gelatin silver photograph. Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2012.72.2. -- source link

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