Judy_Chicago

Judy Chicago Chicago is one of the world’s most notable feminist artists. In 1970 Judy Chicago and CalArts professor Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program. The first project completed by Chicago and program volunteers was a work entitled Womanhouse. Chicago and her team remodeled an abondoned house and turned it into a series of environments that represented women’s traditional household roles. Chicago has chosen to present these rooms as works of installation art, using art forms typically regarded as crafts. The Womb Room is a perfect example, the walls of the room are crochet, a technique usually view as women’s art. Womanhouse is quite typical of Chicago’s work. Throught it she is examining women’s roles throughout history, and presenting it with art form pioneered by women. Soon after the completion of Womanhouse Chicago began work her most notable installation, The Dinner Party. With team of over 400 volunteers Chicago created a huge triangular dinner table, 48 feet on each side, complete with place settings, to honor women’s achievements throughout history. Again Chicago has used a typical domestic scene to present women’s history. The table has 39 place settings, each representing a chicago, art, women’s, work, women, table, place, china, womanhouse, throughout, settings, installation, history, fine, each, dinner, crafts, chicago’s, works, woman’s, volunteers, view, typically, typical, tries, traditional, team, setting, room, roles, role, represented, regarded, program, presenting