Mapping Project

Two black boards sit side by side, with silver outlines of a floorplan traced upon them. Little points of red and blue light twinkle at the viewer, and a key in the lower right-hand corner explains that red represents a female artist and blue represents a male artist. The floorplan is that of two parts (the main galleries/permanent collection and the ground floor) of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The blue lights quite obviously outnumber the red.

Although the original idea may have been to simply show how many male artists and how many female artists are on display at the Walker, the outcome revealed something more. The project appears to convey sexism within the Walker or within the art world itself, perhaps. Although it does not include the entire museum and therefore may be inaccurate, judgment based on these areas alone shows that there may be reason for feminist artists to rally at the Walker.