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| Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979 |
The Dinner Party was the 1970s' iconic feminist art in America. Beginning in 1974 and finished in 1979, hundreds of collaborators helped to create this structural artwork to celebrate and honor the feats of approximately a thousand actual and mystical female figures that did not gain attention in history until feminist scholars recovered them. It is arranged in a triangular table; each side measured forty-eight feet with a total number of thrity-nine place settings. Each one of the plates placed on the table had an image that looks like a flower and shaped them intentionally to bear a resemblance of a vulva. In addition, the names of the women are inscribed on the hand-cast tile below the triangular table for each plate.
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| Ganzeer, Urgent Visions, 2015 |
Urgent Visions is a piece of political street art created in Egypt during and after the 2011 revolution. Ganzeer fled the country for safety in 2014. He uses prints, stencils, stickers, and wall pieces to express his viewpoint on both the hypocritical actions of the US and the police brutality in the Egyptian regime. This wall features a certain amount of graphics that Ganzeer selected from 2011 to the present.
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| L.J. Roberts, Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves, 2011 |
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves conveys the empowerment of women and LGBTQ rights. These banners came from the do-it-yourself aesthetic of 1960s social movements. L.J. Roberts was inspired to illustrate the banners with the women and rifles from a postcard from the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn; these features advocated the derivation of radical women's politics. The factors of the artist's images challenges hierarchies of mastery and skill, as her images dispute for social and political reorganization.
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