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.Sue Coe moved to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1972, and became well-known for work featuring scathing caricatures of political events and critiques of racism, sexism, and capitalism. Her mixed media collage Riot depicts a violent food riot with workers revolting against police and military forces who converge onto them from all sides. A passage from German Marxist Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war poem, From A German War Primer, runs across the bottom and evokes the precarity of unemployed during war time.Posted by Allie RickardSue Coe (British, born 1951). Riot, 1984. Mixed media and collage on paper. Contemporary Art. Helen Babbott Sanders Fund, 85.55.1. -- source link

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