Activist artist collective Guerrilla Girls to give lecture at Purdue University on Sept. 13

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Guerrilla Girls, feminist activist artists who utilize facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender, ethnicity-based discrimination and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture, will give a lecture at Purdue University on Sept. 13.

The event is free and will occur in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse at 7:30 p.m., with a pre-show event scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. in the 1869 Tap Room in the Purdue Memorial Union. In addition, Purdue Galleries is hosting an exhibition featuring selections from over 30 years of posters and projects by the Guerrilla Girls. The exhibition runs through Sept. 22. 

The event is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from Purdue’s Civil Engagement and Leadership Development office, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center and Latino Cultural Center. 

The Guerrilla Girls wear gorilla masks in public to keep their audiences focused on the issues they’re protesting rather than on their identities. Founded in 1985, they have done over 100 street projects, posters, and stickers worldwide in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Bilbao and Shanghai, among many more locations. They’ve also created exhibitions attacking museums for bad behavior and discriminatory practices right on their own walls. The Guerrilla Girls believe in intersectional feminism, fighting discrimination and human rights for all people and all genders. 

Admission is free, but attendees will need to reserve a seating pass. Seating passes are available  here.  Attendees must present a seating pass when entering the venue. Seating pass holders must be at Loeb Playhouse by 7 p.m. to be seated. Any remaining unclaimed seating passes will be made available to the general public beginning at 7:15 p.m.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, 765-494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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