MMC Students Pay Homage to Iconic Feminist Art Installation
Inspired by Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work The Dinner Party (1974-79), students in Professor Adrienne Baxter Bell’s Art/Social Justice seminar In the Picture: Overlooked Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art created an installation highlighting 24 important women—including artists—lost in the shadows of history.
The exhibit, Tea Party, was on display in The Judy’s Digital Immersion Studio in April. It featured a banquet table similar to Chicago’s, and at each setting, a plate with a design evoking one of the 24 women and her work, along with an information sheet on the subject and research sources.
Students designed and created their plates with guidance from Art and Art History Chair and Professor of Art Hallie Cohen. At the exhibition’s opening on April 9, each student gave a presentation on the overlooked woman they spotlighted.
Images from Chicago’s extraordinary installation, which is permanently housed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and photographs of the MMC artists/historians creating their works of art were projected on the walls.
View images from the exhibit below.
Published: May 05, 2024
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