Recently, NPR asked hundreds of women who work as musicians to fill out a questionnaire about aspects of being women in the music business today.  They’ve published their complete answers online and will be airing a series of pieces on women in music in the coming months.  You can check out everyone’s answers here.
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Presented in conjunction with their publication Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosted a symposium last Friday on Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now. Through multiple presentations and panel discussions, artists and curators of various specialties started to examine what effect feminist politics and gender [...]

For The Birds is pleased to announce that we are now accepting new member applications.  You can download the New Member Packet PDF for more information about the collective, what it means to be a member, and the application process.  Feel free to contact us with any questions.  We look forward to hearing from you!

Kristine Virsis – Alice
Last week I went to an event at Bluestockings, a radical bookstore in lower Manhattan, for the book Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, based on a traveling exhibition of amazing protest art.  A group of artists included in the book gathered to share their thoughts on making art to promote social [...]