"Judy Chicago: Early Work"
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 27/06/2014

Gail Levin traces the development of Judy Chicago's art from the time when she was known as Judith Sylvia Cohen up to the moment she began to conceive of The Dinner Party. Levin examines and contextualizes what nurtured, inspired, provoked, and challenged Chicago's remarkable creativity, drawing upon the many interviews she conducted with Chicago and other artists while researching her 2007 biography, Becoming Judy Chicago.

Levin is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women's Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York. After studying the lives of other artists, Levin examined her own life in art in a collage memoir, On NOT Becoming an Artist: A Retro-Spective, which will be shown May 1--27 at the National Association of Women Artists.

This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on May 18, 2014. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/