Women, Art and Power

Judy Chicago

Sunday, 06 Oct 1991 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Judy Chicago is an artist who is best known fro her multi-media work The Dinner Party, a symbolic history of women in western civilization which travelled extensively throughout the world. Other projects include the Birth Project and the Holocaust Project. She is author of Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist and a co-founder of Women Art and Through the Flower organizations. Part of Women's Week. From the University Lectures Program archive.

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