KIM IRWIN Visual & Performance Artist

Kim Irwin is a visual and performance artist whose WE ARE SECRETARIES project recruited over one hundred working women to type their autobiographies at public performances in six U.S. cities. Her WANTED: X-CHEERLEADERS–with choreographer Jody Oberfelder and a squad ages 25 to 56–was described as “a pro-woman pep rally,”  which performed cheers related to women’s issues from NYC to Chicago to Atlanta and got 2,000 working women to their feet cheering for equal pay. Kim has performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and at the New Museum and has received support from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Puffin Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Her poetry explores the inhumanity of white privilege and what this monstrous lie looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

By day, Kim is also a senior events program director for Working Mother Media.