Behind every talented artist in Greenwich Village, there is… A powerful, talented and liberated Village woman! From Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opening her studio in a former stable to a mysterious Dada poet, artist and Baroness inventing (and getting arrested for) “wearable art,” and from Mabel Dodge’s wild all-night salons to the first exhibitions of revolutionary paintings by Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, the Village and its environs would not be what it is today without women artists – and writers and photographers.

This two-hour walking tour, led by Marc Kehoe, East Village artist and veteran NYC tour guide, winds through the Village, visiting the sites where women strongly expressed their power and where they insured that their male counterparts became part of New York City cultural history.

Meet: Under the Washington Square Arch, Fifth Avenue/Washington Square North.

Marc Kehoe studied painting and sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art and filmmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design. An exhibiting New York City painter, he created and produced the cult favorite public access TV show The Wild Wild World of Jeff Turtletaub, and underground Super-8 films such as Destroy All Blondes, Private Secrets of Liz Taylor, Metal Madam and Revenge of the Amazons. He also produced a series of “Low-Tech” film evenings and wrote and produced a full-length muti-media extravaganza, Kapusta Descending. Marc has appeared on MTV, and starred in Schusskinder, a narrative feature film shot in Venice, Italy. He has been Art Director of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and has exhibited his paintings at various galleries, most recently at Art of This Century in New York City. He has lived in Lower Manhattan for most of his life.

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