Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I went with two friends to see the Judy Chicago show and we were all quite pleased and impressed. We'd seen The Dinner Party over forty years ago, and what an amazing trailblazing career she has had! She's followed her heart and tried so many things. What we were most impressed with was how collaborative her art has always been and how much credit she gives to those with whom she works. Their names are right up there with hers, and it's such a feminist sensibility to collaborate with other women artists. My grandmothers and mother were in quilting bees, as well as embroidery and knitting groups. Each of their completed projects bore signs of all of them. Contrast that semsibility with male artists, who stole, hid others' work on their art, and we end up with "school of" instead of any credit for their contributions. Even Judith Leyster and Artemisia Gentleschi were hidden as the artist behind works attributed to Frans Hals and Orasco Gentelschi. It's so refreshing to be honest about attributions instead of egocentric. Great show!