Summer Session

Summer Session – Judy Chicago Prepares for a Dinner Party with Female Heroes

The theme of this months Summer Session is celebrity, and today were thinking about how celebrity narratives can offer different possibilities for contextualizing our current moment. In a video from our friends at SFMOMA, artist Judy Chicago talks about her installation The Dinner Party (1974–79), in which she creates a banquet both to honor female heroes throughout Western history and to provide an alternative historical record that acknowledges the impact these women have had in shaping the contemporary world.

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