Guerilla Girls - Reinventing the F Word

I learned about Guerilla Girls last Spring while visiting the MOMA [Museum of Modern Art] in Manhattan.  I was taken with their artwork and felt compelled to photograph their exhibit.  Guerilla Girls are feminists who travel around the world espousing feminism as a platform for art and activism including Civil Rights and GLBT Rights.  They proudly proclaim themselves the embodiment of the 'F' word.  In her essay, Still Needing the F Word, Anna Quindlen states,  'While young women are given the impression that all doors are open, all boundaries down, empirical evidence is to the contrary'.  Other countries are way ahead of ours when  it comes to gender equality in the arts.   In Europe, curators and museum directors have made it their personal and public

 mission to increase the number of women artists in their collections.  It's time for US museums to do what Montehermoso Cultural Center, Spain; the Tate Modern, London; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm are doing - collect and exhibit art by women.  Another arena in our country that needs to attend to its women artists is Hollywood, where a woman has never been awarded an Oscar for Best Director; 94% of writing awards have gone to men; and a mere 3% of acting awards have gone to people of color.  We still have a long way to go for the 'F' word.