Judy Chicago (b. 1939) is a pioneering feminist artist, author and educator whose career has challenged the historical exclusion of women from art and culture. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, ceramics and performance, Chicago addresses gender, sexuality, birth, mortality, environmental destruction and social justice. Her monumental installation The Dinner Party (1974–79), which celebrates women’s achievements across history, became an icon of feminist art and is permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum. In her 1980-1985 installation the Birth Project, she collaborated with 150 needleworkers to show women’s bodies and child birth alongside creation myths. The project’s production and display aimed to improve the public’s consideration of femininely perceived subjects, art, and artists who made the project possible. Chicago earned her B.A. and M.A. from UCLA and went on to establish the first feminist art program in the United States at Fresno State in 1970. Her groundbreaking approaches to collaborative practice and feminist art education transformed contemporary art and influenced generations of artists.