Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party"

Professor Thomas Germano of Farmingdale State College will present an art slide/lecture on Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at the Garden City Public Library. This free public program is funded by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library. Seating and parking are limited and on a first-come first-served basis. No tickets are required. Library location: 60 Seventh Street, Garden City, NY. For directions phone: (516) 742-8405.

The Dinner Party, is an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-centry art, now exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of 39 place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history. The settings consist of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates with raised central motifs that are based on vulvar and butterfly forms and rendered in styles appropriate to the individual women being honored. The names of another 999 women are inscribed in gold on the white tile floor below the triangular table. This lecture concentrates on the art by Judy Chicago and on the stories behind each of the 39 important women personalities from history and even a few of the others mentioned on the white tiled floor.

Professor Germano holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Yale University with a coincentration in painting. His studio is in the DUMB)O section of Brooklyn. He has shown throughout the USA and abroad and has numerous pieces in public and private collections.