On This Spot Newsletter — March 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Guerrilla Girls

Collectives have long driven the Women’s Movement, using community and activism to challenge systemic inequalities.

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate one such collective: the Guerrilla Girls—our heroes. Since 1985, this anonymous group of female artists has used bold protests and striking posters to expose sexism and racial bias in the art world. Nearly 40 years later, they are still fighting for change.

Spot Reads

Further reading on Spot artists

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly catalogs hundreds of projects about sexism, racism, corruption and other bad behavior in art, film, culture and politics.

What's Happening

Events and exhibitions related to Spot artists

Image: Heresies meeting. Photo courtesy of the Estate of Mary Beth Edelson and David Lewis Gallery; preserved through a partnership with The Feminist Institute, 2018.

On This (SoHo) Spot: Stories of Pioneering Women Artists

by Yukie Ohta for the SoHo Memory Project

This month, Yukie Ohta wrote about On This Spot for the Soho Memory Project.

She writes: "On This Spot’s short archival documentaries reveal that SoHo in the 1960s and ’70s was more than a neighborhood...Here, women artists pushed boundaries, defied conventions, and carved out a place for themselves in a male-dominated art world. Their impact was seismic, reshaping contemporary art and culture. On This Spot brings these stories to life through compelling videos, tracing the footsteps of these trailblazing women and revealing the places where they sparked artistic revolutions."

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