• ARTIST
• Best known for her iconic work, The Dinner Party, an enormous art installation that showcases place settings for 39 historical and mythical women, as well as 999 names of additional women on the floor tiles beneath
• The research that went into unearthing the names included in the work was a major undertaking, resurrecting many women who had previously been overlooked by academia
• Founded the non-profit Through the Flower, which leverages the power of art to reveal the untold stories of women's historical contributions

Bibliography: Bauhoff, Dorothy. “Chicago, Judy.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2008, 334-335.

Photo by Donald Woodman. Work of art: Judy Chicago (Megan Schultz (assistant to Judy Chicago)) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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