Chicago is one of the world’s most notable feminist artists. In 1970 Judy Chicago and CalArts professor Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program. The first project completed by Chicago and program volunteers was a work entitled Womanhouse. Chicago and her team remodeled an abondoned house and turned it into a series of environments that represented women’s traditional household roles. Chicago has chosen to present these rooms as works of installation art, using art forms typically regarded as crafts. The Womb Room is a perfect example, the walls of the room are crochet, a technique usually view as women’s art. Womanhouse is quite typical of Chicago’s work. Throught
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