The Feminist Art Project is an international collaboration seeking to highlight the relevance of female contributions to the arts. It provides various resources for feminist education and Internet references and links women all over the world together in its common goal. According to its website, the Project “is a strategic intervention against the ongoing erasure of women from the cultural record”, claiming its leadership role in the feminist art movement. Themovement dates back to at least the 1970s, when 15 female students and their instructor Judy Chicago developed the first key strategies to highlight artistic successes of women using “female technologies” such as costume, performance and media critique.
Such a movement has come about over the last few decades for the purpose of putting a magnifying glass over the gender politics of our country and others throughout the world. But serious as the question of gender equality in the arts may be, sometimes the most powerful rhetoric comes in the form of a really good joke. [READ MORE HERE]
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