Group Exhibition, Carnival Knowledge Exhibition, New School, Poster, 1981

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Offset print, 16″ x 23″. Designed by Sarah Bratnober.

The feminist art collective Carnival Knowledge (members included Annie Sprinkle, Anne Pitrone, Lyn Hughs, Ame Gilbert, Jodie Fink, Sabrina Jones, and April Ford) staged a carnival at the New School to educate visitors about reproductive rights and female sexuality, using more than 20 sculptures and games.

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The Downtown Era began in the 1970s, when aspiring artists of the baby-boomer generation arrived in New York. Over the next two decades, they would radically change the art world, opening it up to new forms of media, new modes of exhibiting art, and new social perspectives.