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03/01/16 playlist link stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating Women’s History Month, nature & art! Assata Shakur – My Beliefs LION BABE – Wonder Woman Shirley Chrisholm – speech from 1972 Solange – Bad Girls (Verdine Version) TLC – Waterfalls Maipei – Don’t Wait Edna St. Vincent Milay – City Trees Eisley – The Valley Retsin – Big Song Girlpool – Plants and Worms Mothers – No Crying in Baseball Courtney Barnett – Small Poppies Bjork – Black Lake Zola Jesus – Sea Talk Ibeyi – River Madame S0 – Let’s Dance (David Bowie cover) ** Le Tigre – My Art Julee Cruise – The Art of Being a Girl Allie – Tundra Waxahatchee – Under a Rock Now, Now – Wolf Tracy Bonham – Mother, Mother HINDS – Garden Koko Beware – Beach Babe Violent Mae – In the Sun PJ Harvey – Down By The Water Janis Joplin – Half Moon Heart – Sunflower Sylvia Plath – Green Rock, Winthrop Bay Joni Mitchell – California

Hannah Wilke by Evelyne Zapata Self Portraiture; self-preservation and sensuality. These terms are all relevant to the well-known feminist Hannah Wilke’s art work. Throughout her short life, she presented herself in several settings all with one thing in common - they represent a sense of preservation for her and women in general. “Wilke used the various mediums of photography, performance, sculpture, and video to examine and challenge prevailing notions of femininity, feminism, and sexuality” (Guggenheim). “Hannah Wilke was an influential second-generation feminist artist whose work in sculpture and performance art challenged gender stereotypes and probed the relationship between aesthetics, eroticism, and politics. Wilke began her career as a sculptor, creating pieces in clay and terracotta that evoke both organic forms and female genitalia, a symbol of women’s empowerment in the 1970s” (Princeton Art Museum). One of the earliest works that Wilke made was when she was in her ...