Join IWGS, Gallery 1C03 and MAWA in honouring International Women’s Day 2012 with Winnipeg’s FIRST screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution, followed by a panel discussion. Watch the film and join local feminist artists Roewan Crowe, Shawna Dempsey, and Tasha Hubbard in a dialogue about women in art.

This event is FREE, open to all, and will take place in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at University of Winnipeg, on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 7 PM. For more information about the event please contact Kim Hunter at 786-9921 or Jennifer Gibson at 786-9253. More information about the film can be found at www.womenartrevolution.com
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About the Film:
For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.

!Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building, publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art.
New ways of thinking about the complexities of gender, race, class, and sexuality evolved. The Guerrilla Girls emerged as the conscience of the art world and held academic institutions, galleries, and museums accountable for discrimination practices. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now feel is the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Carrie Brownstein composed an original score to accompany the film. Laurie Anderson, Janis Joplin, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Erase Errata and Tribe 8 are some of the gifted musicians who contributed to our soundtrack.