Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago, born Judith Sylvia Cohen in 1939, is an American feminist artist, art educator and writer known for large collaborative installations that combine traditionally feminine skills such as needlework with industrial techniques such as welding, and who founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno in the 1970s. Her most celebrated work, The Dinner Party, permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum, is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, and her other major pieces include the International Honor Quilt, the Birth Project and the Holocaust Project. She was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2018.