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Now that the Beltane Issue of MatriFocus has been published, I'm having time to catch up on various things. At The Wildhunt Blog, I learned great news: Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party now has a permanent home.

I saw The Dinner Party in Houston, Texas — the first exhibition venue of its nine-year road tour after its premier in March, 1979, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I was a young feminist then, in the middle of my 13 years of conscious a-spirituality.

By the early 90s, when I heard Judy Chicago deliver a keynote speech at one of Pat Cuney's International Festivals of the Goddess in Austin, Texas, I had clearly moved on from the 13-year hiatus from religious/spiritual life. In Chicago's keynote, which featured slides from The Dinner Party, The Birth Project, and the Holocaust Project, which at the time was a work-in-progress, she shared with us her dream and vision of finding a permanent home for her work.

Learning that The Dinner Party has found its home feels like coming full circle for me. Why? I'm not sure. Perhaps because it makes me realize I've been a feminist for three decades; and it reminds me of the incredible surges of hope, power, discovery, and ecstasy that feminism washed through us back then; and because the realization of this particular feminist dream is a proof of the power and vitality and basic goodness of the feminist movement and ideals.

I scribbled the following on the back of an envelope the other night, while watching an episode of Iconoclasts:

We are starved for beauty and meaning in our lives.

(Alice Waters)

The Dinner Party as the permanent centerpiece of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum is a table laden with beauty and meaning, set for all of us — for our ancestors and for our progeny.

Labels: art, feminism / feminists, quotes / quotations

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