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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.
Learn more about the Art+Feminism movement. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made one week prior to this event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. A captioned recording of this program will be available within 7–10 business days following the event posted to the University Libraries website
Organized by Courtney Hunt, Alex Adcock, and Kellie Morgan Lutzko
Carmen Winant is the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography. Winant collects and alloys found photographs as a method of examining feminist modes of survival, revolt, and innermost feeling. Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Sculpture Center, among others. In 2019, Winant published the book Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her partner Luke Stettner and her two and four-year-old sons Rafa and Carlo.
Dr. Guisela Latorre, professor in Ohio State's Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, specializes in modern and contemporary US Latinx and Latin American art with a special emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. She is the author of Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (2008). In addition, she served as cocurator and coauthor of ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (2017). 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 (2018) and “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism” in Street Art of Resistance (2017). She is currently working on an anthology on the arts collective Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.
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Carmen Winant and Dr. Guisela Latorre