And She Gathered All before Her
And She made for them A Sign to See
And lo They saw a Vision
From this day forth Like to like in All things
And then all that divided them merged
And then Everywhere was Eden Once again

Imagine hosting a dinner party for 1,038 of the most extraordinary women in history, 39 of whom are honored by individual place settings at a dinner table nearly 150 feet long.

“The Dinner Party” makes this vision into a reality at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Feminist icon Judy Chicago created this monumental work of art comprised of a triangular table divided by three wings, each 48 feet long.

Click the photo for “The Dinner Party” Virtual Tour

The 39 Place Settings

Wing One: Prehistory to Classical Rome

Primordial Goddess
Fertile Goddess
Ishtar
Kali
Snake Goddess
Sophia
Amazon
Hatshepsut
Judith
Sappho
Aspasia
Boadaceia
Hypatia

Wing Two: Christianity to the Reformation

Marcella
Saint Bridget
Theodora
Hrosvitha
Trotula
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Hildegarde of Bingen
Petronilla de Meath
Christine de Pisan
Isabella d’Este
Elizabeth R.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Anna van Schurman

Wing Three: American Revolution to the Women’s Revolution

Anne Hutchinson
Sacajawea
Caroline Herschel
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Blackwell
Emily Dickinson
Ethel Smyth
Margaret Sanger
Natalie Barney
Virginia Woolf
Georgia O’Keeffe

Browse the Place Settings of “The Dinner Party” here

Visit artist Judy Chicago’s website here

By Kent Davis – All details and images from the Brooklyn Museum website. Devata.org respects the intellectual property rights of others and is displaying a non-commercial sampling of text and images here under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License.

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