The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago

In the hopes that I'll soon start a series focusing on the names of artists, this Friday is brought to you by Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party. It's generally considered the first large-scale feminist art installation in the Western world.

The Dinner Party is composed of a large triangular table with settings for 39 mythical and historical influential women, with the names of 999 other famous women inscribed on inner tiles.

Learn more about the work here: The Dinner Party

Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire

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

Wing II: From the Beginnings of 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 I
Artemisia Gentileschi
Anna van Schurman

Wing III: From the American 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