The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, has featured a monumental work of art, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. It is a triangular table. divided into three wings, each forty-eight feet long, located in the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
The table represents 1,038 women in history, 39 depicted by individual place settings. Susan B. Anthony, the famous leader of the woman suffrage movement, is one of the place settings. Each place setting includes a unique runner, a chalice, napkin and utensils. The other 999 names are inscribed in the Heritage Floor, on which the table rests. Included among those names are suffragists such as Aletta Jacobs, Alice Stone Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Church Terrell. Georgia O'Keefe is in the Third Wing of the table, symbolizing women's increased individual creative expression. To learn more about the interesting table and the many women it represents visit the Brooklyn Museum website.
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