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 once again to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring artists from our upcoming exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 which examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. The show will be on view April 21-September 17, 2017.  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 of color to everyone’s lists.On International Women’s Day and the Day Without A Woman national strike, Barbara Jones-Hogu’s Unite speaks just as poignantly to issues of racial, gender, and economic justice as it did during the Black Power Movement. Jones-Hogu was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCOBRA which was committed to making socially-responsible, community-oriented art, and used screenprints as a democratic form of art to reach wider audiences. Active during the same period were numerous artist-activist groups, including the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, Art Workers Coalition, and Women Artists in Revolution, that were all successful in using collective actions and protests to combat racism and sexism in the art world and in the predominantly white and middle-class second wave feminist movement. Posted by Allie RickardBarbara Jones-Hogu (American, born 1938). Unite, 1971. Screenprint on paper, image. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2012.46. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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