Judy Chicago Featured in New York Times Today

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Judy Chicago and the Center are featured in today’s New York Times!

Ms. Chicago, Party of 39? Your Table’s Ready in Brooklyn
by Robin Pogrebin

In the New York Times article, Chicago talks about The Dinner Party:

“‘It’s important to understand that this didn’t just happen,’ she said, dressed in jeans and black sneakers on a trip to New York from her New Mexico home. ‘It’s also important to understand that resistance can be overcome. One of the reasons I was able to stand up to it was because I knew my history. I knew what the women on the table had been through.’

‘The Dinner Party‘s work isn’t done yet,’ she added.”

The photo above was taken when Judy came to the Museum to see The Dinner Party installed in the new gallery for the first time. Photograph by Adam Husted

Melissa Messina

Melissa Messina

Before coming to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Melissa Messina earned her MFA from Pratt Institute where she received the Presidential Merit Award in Painting. While there, she coordinated the 2005–06 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, which featured such artists as Vanessa Beecroft, Mariko Mori, Judy Pfaff, and Joan Snyder. During this time, she also worked as a Curatorial and Sales Associate for a private dealer in New York specializing in modern abstraction. Prior to moving to New York, Messina was hired by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs as an independent curator and executed several regional and national group exhibitions for their public art galleries, City Gallery East and City Gallery at Chastain. In Atlanta, she was also Assistant Director at Comer Art Advisory, LLC, in 2004, and a Curatorial and Marketing Associate for the art consulting firm, Barkin-Leeds Ltd., 2001–2003. She recently was the Assistant Curator to Ernesto Pujol for the exhibition Mediating America (June 2006) at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, and was invited to jury the exhibition Adam's Rib Eve's Air in Her Hair (January 2007) at the feminist art gallery SOHO20 in Chelsea. Her own artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the Southeast, New England, and New York.

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Press