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Penn State University Libraries has received a gift of one of the most important private collections of feminist art education—The Judy Chicago Art Education Collection. "Chicago's collection and online project will give Penn State students and visiting scholars an unprecedented opportunity to work with original source materials of a key founder of the Feminist Art Movement and a prolific artist to create a new corpus of work on the subject of feminist art pedagogy," said Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education and women's studies at Penn State, who was instrumental in Chicago's interest in Penn State.
Chicago founded the Through the Flower organization (TTF), a non-profit feminist art organization, and in collaboration with Chicago’s gift, TTF also has funded endowments to the college and the University Libraries for additional development, support, and promotion for the Judy Chicago Art Education Archives and the Dinner Party Curriculum. “The Dinner Party,” Chicago’s best-known artwork, is a breathtaking, triangular table that is a symbolic history of women in western civilization and is now in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Chicago created three major collaborative projects after the “Dinner Party”— the Birth Project, Holocaust Project, and Resolutions: A Stitch in Time. She continues making thought-provoking art in new media today, including her work in glass since 2003. Chicago continues as the founding director of TTF.
The archival collection will be housed in 104 Paterno Library on Penn State’s University Park Campus, as well as online.
