Projects
©2013 All Rights Reserved,Through the Flower,
Judy Chicago,
Donald Woodman
THE DINNER PARTY CURRICULUM PROJECT
The rich content of The Dinner Party — women's achievements throughout history and curricular applications for K-12 art education settings is examined by the The Dinner Party Curriculum Project team: Judy Chicago, the founding artist of Through the Flower; Marilyn Stewart, Carrie Nordlund, Peg Speirs, Dolores E. Eaton and Hannah Koch of Kutztown University; Constance Bumgarner Gee of Vanderbilt University.
THE DINNER PARTY
A monumental, multi-media installation created by Judy Chicago and hundreds
of volunteers between 1974 - 1979. A symbolic history of women in Western
Civilization which has toured around the world to fifteen sites, six
countries and a viewing audience of over one million people, in early 2007,
icon of twentieth-century art will be permanently housed in the Elizabeth A.
Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
INTERNATIONAL QUILTING BEE
In 1980, Judy Chicago and Through the Flower invited the submission of
small, triangular quilts honoring women of the quiltmaker's choice. Since
that time, over six hundred of these colorful creations have traveled with
The Dinner Party and are now part of Through the Flower's archive,
catalogued by Dr. Marilee Schmit Nason.
BIRTH PROJECT
Between 1980 - 1985, Judy Chicago designed dozens of images on the subject
of birth and creation to be embellished by needleworkers around the United
States, Canada and as far away as New Zealand. Formatted into provocative
exhibition units which included both needleworks and documentary materials,
these works toured the country and Canada, eventually placed by Through the
Flower in numerous institutions where they are on public view or used as
part of university curricula.
HOLOCAUST PROJECT: From Darkness into Light
Working with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman and a selected number
of skilled artisans, Judy Chicago spent eight years on a project structured
as a journey into the darkness of the Holocaust and out into the light of
hope. Chicago and Woodman examined the Holocaust in a contemporary context,
asking how this tragic event might serve as a prism through which to explore
issues of victimization, oppression, injustice and human cruelty, issues
that are - sadly - very much with us today.
RESOLUTIONS: A Stitch in Time
Although Through the Flower did not tour Resolutions, it provided
administrative and educational support to the museums where it was exhibited
and continues to work with institutions interested in exhibiting the various
works. This project might be described as a post-modern undertaking in that
it subverts both the tradition of proverbs and that of needlework in a
series of images that reinterpret traditional proverbs in a series of works
that combine painting and needlework. Playful yet earnest, Resolutions was
produced between 1994 - 2000 by Judy Chicago and a group of highly skilled
stitchers, many of whom had worked with Chicago for many years.
The rich content of The Dinner Party — women's achievements throughout history and curricular applications for K-12 art education settings is examined by the The Dinner Party Curriculum Project team: Judy Chicago, the founding artist of Through the Flower; Marilyn Stewart, Carrie Nordlund, Peg Speirs, Dolores E. Eaton and Hannah Koch of Kutztown University; Constance Bumgarner Gee of Vanderbilt University.
THE DINNER PARTY
A monumental, multi-media installation created by Judy Chicago and hundreds
of volunteers between 1974 - 1979. A symbolic history of women in Western
Civilization which has toured around the world to fifteen sites, six
countries and a viewing audience of over one million people, in early 2007,
icon of twentieth-century art will be permanently housed in the Elizabeth A.
Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
INTERNATIONAL QUILTING BEE
In 1980, Judy Chicago and Through the Flower invited the submission of
small, triangular quilts honoring women of the quiltmaker's choice. Since
that time, over six hundred of these colorful creations have traveled with
The Dinner Party and are now part of Through the Flower's archive,
catalogued by Dr. Marilee Schmit Nason.
BIRTH PROJECT
Between 1980 - 1985, Judy Chicago designed dozens of images on the subject
of birth and creation to be embellished by needleworkers around the United
States, Canada and as far away as New Zealand. Formatted into provocative
exhibition units which included both needleworks and documentary materials,
these works toured the country and Canada, eventually placed by Through the
Flower in numerous institutions where they are on public view or used as
part of university curricula.
HOLOCAUST PROJECT: From Darkness into Light
Working with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman and a selected number
of skilled artisans, Judy Chicago spent eight years on a project structured
as a journey into the darkness of the Holocaust and out into the light of
hope. Chicago and Woodman examined the Holocaust in a contemporary context,
asking how this tragic event might serve as a prism through which to explore
issues of victimization, oppression, injustice and human cruelty, issues
that are - sadly - very much with us today.
RESOLUTIONS: A Stitch in Time
Although Through the Flower did not tour Resolutions, it provided
administrative and educational support to the museums where it was exhibited
and continues to work with institutions interested in exhibiting the various
works. This project might be described as a post-modern undertaking in that
it subverts both the tradition of proverbs and that of needlework in a
series of images that reinterpret traditional proverbs in a series of works
that combine painting and needlework. Playful yet earnest, Resolutions was
produced between 1994 - 2000 by Judy Chicago and a group of highly skilled
stitchers, many of whom had worked with Chicago for many years.