Judy Chicago in 1979 on The Dinner Party

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Tue, 03/10/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Judy Chicago in 1979 on The Dinner Party

We hear an archival interview with artist and educator Judy Chicago, recorded just before the opening of her Masterpiece installation The Dinner Party at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979.

Judy Chicago was an important advocate for the Feminist Arts Program at Cal Arts.  She began hosting a radio program at KPFK Los Angeles, and cofounded the Los Angeles Women's Building in 1973. 

In 1974 Judy began creating her landmark artistic Installation The Dinner Party. 

It would take 6 years to complete this masterpiece of 39 place settings arranged into groupings of 13, with the three dining tables arranged into a triangle.

It's official debut was at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on March 14, 1979 for a three month exhibit. 

The exhibit has since traveled the world and now resides in the permanent collection of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Judy Chicago sat down with KPFK producer Karla Tonella before the Installation's debut in 1979 to explain in her own words about the enormous undertaking of this important work.


This program is from the Pacifica series "From the Vault." 
 

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