Judy Chicago was born in 1939 and is an artist feminist and educator whose career now spans five decades. Between 1974 and 1979 Chicago, with the help of hundreds of volunteers, worked on one of her most recognizable pieces, The Dinner Party which is widely recognized as an icon of feminist art and has been permanently housed at the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. This colossal work of art is a substantial ceremonial banquet in the shape of an open triangle, a shape symbolic of equality, measuring forty-eight feet on each side with a total of thirty-nine place settings. Chicago represents 1,038 women in history in this piece. 39 women are commemorated by having individual place settings at the table while an additional 999
