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National Museum of Women in the Arts Spring Gala
April 11 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$2000
What The event features a seated dinner, award ceremony and entertainment. Luminaries from Washington’s diplomatic, governmental and social communities are expected to attend. Guests are also invited to preview the new special exhibition Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble, organized on the occasion of the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary as a showcase of prints and objects from throughout their body of work, and enjoy Uncanny, a special exhibition of haunting and visionary art by modern and contemporary artists. This year’s gala will honor Bisa Butler, an interdisciplinary artist known for her psychologically nuanced portraits composed of vibrantly colored fabrics, and the Guerrilla Girls, the indefatigable activist-artist collective and self-described “conscience of the art world.” Through her celebratory quilted works, Bisa Butler investigates the purposes and potential of portraiture within the Black historical narrative. Drawing on influences ranging from personal family scrapbooks to American folk traditions, she invites viewers to invest in the lives of her subjects, while simultaneously expanding art-historical narratives about American quilt-making. Since they burst into the art world in 1985 with provocative text- and graphic-based prints denouncing discrimination, the Guerrilla Girls became a global force for change. To protect their identities, the group’s anonymous members adopt as pseudonyms the names of historical women artists, such as Alma Thomas and Käthe Kollwitz, and wear gorilla masks during public appearances. Many of the topics that the Guerrilla Girls addressed in the 1980s and ’90s—reproductive rights, the environment and gender equity in the arts, to name a few—are still pressing today. When Where Tickets |
