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The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by American feminist artist Judy Chicago. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women.
The Dinner Party is not about one-off dinners. It’s about building community and connection over time. Your virtual table or buddy and you will ideally meet every couple weeks or so and you’ll start getting to know more about your fellow Dinner Partiers beyond just their story of loss.
Dec 6, 2023 · The Dinner Party is a monument to women’s history and accomplishments. It is a massive triangular table—measuring 48 feet on each side—with thirty-nine place settings dedicated to prominent women throughout history and an additional 999 names are inscribed on the table’s glazed porcelain brick base.
Nov 7, 2017 · A celebration of female accomplishment, The Dinner Party operates on multiple levels. Not only does it set a place, literally, for unsung women in the pantheon of history, it also makes a powerful argument for the importance of these traditionally feminine artistic practices, which have been unfairly relegated to the realm of craft.
The Dinner Party, widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, is a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. The multi-media work consists of a dining table that is an equilateral triangle with 39 place settings, each representing either a woman or a goddess, and consisting of a china-painted ceramic plate resting on cloth ...
Affinity Tables are Dinner Party Tables built by, and for, people who share a particular loss experience or identity (e.g. Tables can be reserved for BIPOC, LGBTQ+; people who have lost both parents, siblings, or partners; people who have experienced suicide loss, homicide loss, or loss to addiction, etc.).
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized.
