"The Dinner Party"
I picked Judy Chicago for this post because when I took ceramics with professor Hayes we actually did a version of her "Dinner Party" to help support the food bank of Virginia. We had a No Dinner Dinner Party where everyone made "plates" that somehow represented hunger. For mine I made a set of hands holding up a piece cardboard that has written on it "will work for food".
Judy Chicago was born on July 20th 1939 in Chicago IL. She received her Bachelor Degree and Masters degree both at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1962 and 1964. Judy is another one of those artists that isn't just an artist she is an author, educator, feminist, and an intellectual whose career has now spanned over five decades. Just Chicago has been a huge influence both within and beyond the art community which can be shown by the numerous inclusions in publications throughout the world. Chicago's work has been on exhibit frequently in the United States and Canada as well as in Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to her art exhibits many of the books she has written have also been published in foreign editions, which enables her to bring her art and philosophy to many readers around the world. After taking time off from teaching for 25 years in 1999 she returned to teaching at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. Although Judy has been an influential teacher and a prolific author her primary focus throughout her career has been her studio work. In 1974 Chicago turned her attention to the subject of women's history as she created her most well know work "The Dinner Party" which was executed from 1974 to 1979 with the participation of hundreds of volunteers. This was an extremely monumental multimedia project with was symbolic history of women in the western civilization. The Dinner Party has been seen by more than one million viewers during its sixteen exhibitions held at venues spanning six countries.
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