From the Guerrilla Girls exhibit page: “Their performance will take the audience through their history and the ideas behind their activism tools. How they came up with some of their many, many posters, books (The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Guide to Female Stereotypes, The Guerrilla Girls’ Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, From Ancient Times Until No) and actions about discrimination in art, film, politics, etc. Meet the Guerrilla Girls and bring your questions!”
Web Exhibitions
The Work of Ellen Emmet Rand
Ellen Emmet Rand (March 4, 1875 – December 18, 1941) was a painter and illustrator. She specialized in portraits, painting over 500 works during her career including portraits of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and her cousins Henry James and William James. Rand studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City and produced illustrations for Vogue Magazine and Harper’s Weekly before traveling to England and then France to study with sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies. The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut owns the largest collection of her painted works and the Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut and the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.
Arpillera
Three Dimentional Appliqué Textiles of Chile, c. 1985 – 1998 Sewing for Resistance
From the Education Collection of The William Benton Museum of Art
The images are for educational purposes only and present a sample of the collection. For permission to
reproduce, please contact the Registrar at The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 860-486-1707.
Molas, Textile Designs of the Kuna Indians of Panama
This collection is a gift to the William Benton Museum of Art by Theodore Hans in the memory of his wife Elisabeth Hans
The web presentation of this collection is made possible by a “Museum for the Millenium” grant, a Connecticut League of History Organizations initiative funded by SBC/SNET. The images are for educational purposes only and represent a sample of the collection. for permission to publish pleas contact The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 860-486-1707.