Guerrilla Girls Body Count - 2024 Annual Juried CT Artists Exhibition Slater Memorial Museum

 Dr. Tanya Pohrt, juror

66 pieces by 55 men accepted

86 pieces by 75 women accepted

approx. 300+ pieces entered

Guerrilla Girls 2023 EOY Cumulative Body Count

 In 2023, in 17 juried or otherwise selected visual art gallery shows in the Northeast;

576 women were chosen to exhibit (65%)

309 men were chosen to exhibit (35%)

2 self-identified Trans were chosen (.2%) 

 

Two Foundations Opllock/Krasner & Joan Mitchell) awarded

55 women and 39 men grants

Collector spending via ArtBasel study: 

2.6 HNW collectors spent less on works by female artists in 2022 and 2023, with a ratio by value of 39% female to 61% male

In other words, galleries are losing money thanks to their imbalances.

Motivations of collectors.

In other words, galleries that don't account for who their patrons are miss the commercial opportunities.

The National Endowment for the Arts reports that 46.1% of visual artists are women.    Few highly reliable, least biased resources exist.

THE NEA report has LOTS of good, interesting, and actionable data that should temper the rhetoric concerning under-representation, "erasure", and other volumes of unsubstantiated discrimination claims.

Two shows include in this count had no previous mention and were researched by their conspicuous absence.

The 2023 Silvermine 'One' juried show:
 
27 women, 3 men accepted

The Hudson Juried Artist show:

 70 women and 60 men accepted