March has come to be known as Women’s History Month, and Chicago arts–especially at Loyola–are celebrating with different manifestations of feminist art. The following events at Loyola and around the city celebrate the power of the female voice in different artistic arenas.

Loyola’s Women’s and Gender Studies program is presenting a couple of theatre performances during the week of March 18th.The first, The Vagina Monologues, has become an annual favorite, a steadfast emblem of communal support of women. The Vagina Monologues takes place in the Mundelein Auditorium on Sunday, March 18th.

Fefu and Her Friends, a play by Maria Irene Fornes, will be performed March 23rd-25th in Piper Hall. Featuring several Loyola professors from several departments (including our own Ann Shanahan), Fefu and Her Friends is a radical, uncompromising work that examines the complex forces of love, death, politics, fantasy and hidden desire.

Other suggested arts events in the city coincide with the feminist issues presented in these performances. Chicago’s all-Latina theatre company Teatro Luna’s production Crossed (How Going South Flipped Our Script) closes March 18th. Through five female performers, the production tackles the taboo subject of being an immigrant in the U.S.

Our southern neighbor, Columbia College Chicago, has an ongoing gallery exhibition: Not Ready to Make Nice: The Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond. Focusing on the anonymous feminist group, The Guerilla Girls, the exhibition demonstrates how their art has proved a motivator for social change.

Check out the program’s full list of events for the rest of the semester online.