Womxn and BIPOC artists have been historically underrepresented in art spaces. Major museums, commercial galleries and other mainstream areas of the art world have catered to the white male artist and typical western “canon.” Art + Feminism is a movement seeking to change that, focusing on how womxn have been underrepresented in the digital world, specifically on Wikipedia.
Each year under the banner of Art+Feminism, libraries, museums and others dedicated to this mission hold Wikipedia edit-a-thons to rectify the injustice of these omissions. This year, due to COVID-19, the edit-a-thon organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts Student Engagement Group and the Fine Arts Library was held virtually. This event features talks on the topic of art and feminism by Carmen Winant and Dr. Guisela Latorre that were originally scheduled as part of the 2020 edit-a-thon.
Speaker Carmen Winant is the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography. Winant studies feminism, and its intersection with survival, revolt, and innermost feeling, through photographs. Winant is the author of "Notes on Fundamental Joy; seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us." Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Sculpture Center.
Speaker Dr. Guisela Latorre is a professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American art with an emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. Latorre is the author of “Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile” and “Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California." Latorre also co-curated and co-authored the exhibition/book “¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege." Her other publications include “The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art’s Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation” in The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies and “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism” in Street Art of Resistance.
This event is free and virtual, and registration is required. Please register here.