Guerrilla Girls and Graphic Design
On Fridays at my school, I see every class for a 40 minute session. I decided to do a “designer” spotlight on the Guerrilla Girls for my Graphic Design class. Many of the students have not taken art since elementary school, and none of them had heard of the Guerrilla Girls before. I showed them Definition of a Hypocrite and then we watched PBS’s “The Art Assignment: the Art of Complaining.” In the video, two of the Guerrilla Girls assign viewers the task of complaining. I then reinforced their instructions, prompting students to use Photoshop or Illustrator to design a poster raising awareness of something they want to complain about. They had about 30 minutes to do this and their posters blew me away. We talked about institutional critique during our discussion of Definition of a Hypocrite, and several students chose to design posters responding to issues they face at school, which I thought was awesome.
