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46 ACQUISITIONS 46 In 2014 the museum acquired 67 works made by the Guerrilla Girls between 1985 and 2012. These works use bold graphics biting humor and statistics to confront the variety of barriers faced by wom- en in creative elds. This acquisition responded to Smith faculty and students who expressed the desire for increased representation of the work of feminist artists in the museums collection. There are now over 100 works on paper by the Guerrilla Girls in SCMAs collection and they are regularly used for classes in topics ranging from writing to the study of women and gender. The founding of the group known as the Guerrilla Girls was prompted by the under-representation of women and artists of color in a 1985 Museum of Modern Art exhibition titled An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. Group members assumed the names of dead women artists and wore gorilla masks in public concealing their identities and focusing on issues of racism sexism and prejudice in the art world. With a rotating active membership of more than 100 women the Guerrilla Girls have produced posters billboards public actions books and other projects highlighting the ongoing battle for equality in the art world and other creative elds such as lm. In addition they tackle issues including reproductive rights rape poverty and war. The Guerrilla Girls ACQUISITIONS 1