Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist and writer known
for her large collaborative art installation pieces which examine the role of
women in history and culture. Born in Chicago, Illinois, as Judith Cohen, she
changed her name after the death of her father and her first husband, choosing
to disconnect from the idea of male dominated naming conventions. By the 1970s,
Chicago had coined the term "feminist art" and had founded the first
feminist art program in the United States. Chicago's work incorporates skills
stereotypically placed upon women artistically, such as needlework,
counteracted with stereotypical male skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's
masterpiece work is The Dinner Party, which is in the collection of the
Brooklyn Museum
The dinner party
In 1970, Chicago decided to teach full time at Fresno State
College, hoping to teach women the skills needed to express the female
perspective in their work. At Fresno, she planned a class that would consist
only of women, and she would teach the fifteen students off campus to escape
"the presence and hence, the expectations of men." It was at this
time when Chicago would coin the term "feminist art" and the class
would be the first feminist art program in the United States.
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