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Judy Chicago, 1971, photo: Jerry McMillan
Judy Chicago, 1971, photo: Jerry McMillan

Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate

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. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design especially Visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project. For other works with this title see Dinner Party The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by Feminist artist Judy Chicago

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. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts 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. The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experience as well as to change the foundation History Today's California State University system is the direct descendant of the California State Normal School (now San José State University) a 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 Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist / Maoist African-American organization established

In 1971 Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro jointly founded the CalArts Feminist Art Program for the California Institute of the Arts. Miriam Schapiro (or Shapiro) (born 1923 is a Canadian -born artist based in America. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia California, a suburb of Los Angeles California. Together they organized one of the first-ever feminist art exhibitions - Womanhouse - 30 January-28 February 1972. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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.

Judy Chicago is most famous for her 1974-1979 work The Dinner Party. For other works with this title see Dinner Party The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by Feminist artist Judy Chicago 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.

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. The Final Solution ( Die Endlösung) was Nazi Germany 's plan and execution of its systematic Genocide against European Jewry during World

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 Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery ( CCGG) is a public art gallery located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition has been a great success thus far. It opened with a sold-out talk by the artist.

A member of the Guerrilla Girls, in an interview, is quoted as saying ". The Guerrilla Girls are a group of Radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985, known for using Guerrilla art to promote . . 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

References

  1. ^ "But is it art, The Spirit of Art as Activism", Edited by Nina Felshin, Bay Press.

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