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Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson Brings !WAR To Napa Valley
Award-Winning Women Art Revolution Film
Debuts At The Hess Collection –
Arts Council Benefit Features Artist Conversation
With Forum’s Michael Krasny
A moving collection of interviews
with female artists recorded
over four decades by artist Lynn
Hershman Leeson captures the
history of women in contemporary
art, in their own, often contentious
retelling of the impact of the feminist
art movement that dates to the
beginning of the women’s liberation
and civil rights movements of
Lynn Hershman
the 1960s. The award-winning film, featuring a rousing score by Carrie
Brownstein, will debut in the West Galley of the Hess Art Collection at
The Hess Collection Winery on Saturday, April 28 in a major fundraiser
for the Arts Council of Napa Valley, part of the Napa Valley Arts
in April celebration organized by the Napa Valley Destination
Council.
The Arts Council benefit begins with a garden wine reception at
The Hess Collection at 3 p.m., followed by a conversation with artist
Leeson in the West Gallery of the Hess Art Collection led by popular
KQED Forum host Michael Krasny. The 83-minute film follows.
Later, an exclusive dinner with limited seating with artist Leeson and
Michael Krasny will further benefit the Arts Council.
Tickets, priced at $100, and further information are available at
www.womenartrevolutionbenefit.eventbrite.com. For information
about the exclusive dinner, which is a separate event and ticket, contact
Ashley Cox at acox@hesscollection.com or (707) 255-1144 x-226.
Ms. Leeson has long-been among the most popular artists at The
Hess Art Collection, where her displayed work includes America’s
Finest #2, DiNA, Cyberroberta, A Room of One’s Own and Roberta
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Breitmore. Often, her work is interactive and challenges the viewer. In
all, Donald Hess has acquired 17 works by the artist.
!WAR was selected as one of the three best documentaries of 2011
by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is an official selection
of the Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco, Toronto and Human
Rights Watch Film Festivals.
Synopsis of !WAR (Women Art Revolution)
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist
Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored
movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and
works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from
its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details
major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores
how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in
what is now widely regarded as
the most significant art movement
of the late 20th century.
For more than forty years, filmmaker
Lynn Hershman Leeson
(Teknolust, Strange Culture) has
collected a plethora of interviews
with her contemporaries — and
shaped them into an intimate
portrayal of their fight to break
down barriers facing women both
in the art world and society at
large. With a rousing score by
Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein,
!W.A.R. features Miranda
July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne
Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina
Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy
Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby
Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee
Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro,
Marcia Tucker and countless other
groundbreaking figures.
Tickets For !WAR Arts In April
Benefit are available online at
www.womenartrevolutionbenefit.eventbrite.com.
For details, go
to www.womenartrevolution.com.
The Hess Collection is located
on the top of the mountain at
4411 Redwood Road. The tasting
room is open daily from 10 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Call (707) 255-1144 or
go to www.hesscollection.com for
more information on The Hess
Collection wines, the museum or
special events.
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