(IBTimes, 2012)
Judy Chicago then created The Dinner Party K-12 curriculum. Judy attempts to bring awareness to issues within underrepresented groups, such as women, within this curriculum (Nodland; Speirs; Stewart, 2010).
The curriculum involves a complete set of principles to help the teachers allow their students to better understand complex artworks. These steps involve assessing the students, creating a safe environment, finding ideas, looking for metaphors, inviting people from outside of the classroom, encouraging discussion, allowing different perspectives, making connections within the work, exploring the time period, encouraging inquiry, guiding practice, being flexible, reflecting, and finding support for your lesson plan from other colleagues (Nodland; Speirs; Stewart, 2010). These steps are well organized and very insightful. The issue that some might have with this curriculum is its link to the controversial artwork, The Dinner Party.
Many people could dispute that a controversial work of art, such as The Dinner Party, is inappropriate to include within K-12 educational curriculum. Many of the images displayed within this work can be misinterpreted as literal vaginas, rather than a metaphor that celebrates female power (Reilly, 2002). These images may be too mature for young viewers to witness, let alone fully understand.
Images from: (Sanger, 2007)
Work Cited:
Chicago, Judy.(2013). Introduction by Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party Curriculum Project. Retrieved from http://judychicago.arted.psu.edu/dpcp/
IBTimes.(2012). Interview with feminist artist Judy Chicago. IBTimes UK. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsB1G8nj6Q
AN INVITATION TO SOCIAL CHANGE: Fifteen Principles for Teaching Art. Retrieved from https://cms.psu.edu/section/default.asp?id=201314SPUP%5F%5F%5FRA%5FED%5F212%5F001
Reilly. (2002). Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved from https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/tour_and_home.php
Sanger. (2007). Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Place Setting: Margaret Sanger. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved from
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