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Judy Chicago, 1971, photo: Jerry McMillan

Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ...

Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project. For other uses, see Minimalism (disambiguation). ... Cover of Judy Chicago’s 1996 book describing the work The Dinner Party is a work by feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women throughout history. ...

Born in 1939 in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles in 1957 to attend UCLA art school, where she graduated in 1962 Phi Beta Kappa. In 1964, she received her MA from UCLA in painting and sculpture. In 1966, Chicago's work "Rainbow Pickets" was shown in "Primary Structures," a major minimalist exhibition at the Jewish Museum. In 1970, Chicago founded the first Feminist Art program at California State University at Fresno. This program was documented in the film "Judy Chicago and the California Girls", directed by Judith Dancoff and released in 1971. She also changed her last name to Chicago, emulating members of the Black Panther Party, who believed their given names only re-enforced their "slave" identities. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is a museum in Berlin covering two millennia of German Jewish history. ... The California State University (CSU) is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College System. ... The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American organization founded to promote civil rights and self-defense. ...

In 1971 Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro jointly founded the CalArts Feminist Art Program for the California Institute of the Arts. Together they organized one of the first-ever feminist art exhibitions - Womanhouse - 30 January-28 February 1972. In 1973, Chicago co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop, located inside the Los Angeles Women's Building, a seminal feminist art teaching and exhibition space. Category: ... The California Institute of the Arts, commonly known as CalArts, and located in Valencia, California, grants degrees in visual and performing arts. ... Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ... Womanhouse (30 January-28 February 1972) was a women-only art installation and performance organised by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the California Insitute of the Arts (CalArts) Feminist Art Program. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Judy Chicago is most famous for her 1974-1979 work The Dinner Party. This work, in which hundreds of volunteers participated, has been housed since 2002 in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It was donated to the museum by The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. It is now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum within the Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art which opened in March 2007. It is a homage to women's history in the form of a large triangular table with symbolic ceramic plates representing 39 famous women guests-of-honor. The work is intended as an elevation to heroic scale of the contributions of women in a way that has been excluded throughout history. Cover of Judy Chicago’s 1996 book describing the work The Dinner Party is a work by feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women throughout history. ...

Other famous works include Birth Project (which brought together a national network of skilled needle-workers 1980 -1985), the 1993 Holocaust Project personifying the final solution, and the 1994 work Resolutions, which returned to the theme of feminism, a thread that runs through all of her work. This article is about the term with respect to the Jewish Question in World War II. For other uses, see Final Solution (disambiguation). ...

Currently, Chicago is married to photographer Donald Woodman and serves as the Artistic Director of Through the Flower, a non-profit arts organization created in 1978 to support her work. Her latest body of work is titled Chicago in Glass. A biography, Becoming Judy Chicago, by Dr. Gail Levin, was released in February, 2007.

"Chicago in Glass" (a retrospective of Judy Chicago's work in glass) will be on display at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo ON from September 9th to January 13, 2008. The exhibition has been a great success thus far. It opened with a sold-out talk by the artist. The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (CCGG or C2G2) is an art gallery located in Waterloo, Ontario. ...

A member of the Guerrilla Girls, in an interview, is quoted as saying "...we just didn't want any more Judy Chicagos. No more monsters".^[1]

Judy Chicago is an advisory board member of the organization Feminists For Animal Rights.

Written works

• Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist (1975)
• The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage (1979)
• Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework (1980)
• The Birth Project (1985)
• Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light (1993)
• The Dinner Party (1996)
• Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist (1996)
• Fragments from the Delta of Venus (2004)
• Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours (2005)

References

• Busch, Julia M., "A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960's" (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1

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External links

• The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery
• Through the Flower
• Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive
• CAFKA.TV's coverage of the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, featuring Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
• Judy Chicago's website
• Judy Chicago's Archive at LewAllen Contemporary
• Documentary film Judy Chicago & the California Girls
• The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum