Judy Chicago aimed to disrupt this silence. She wanted to create a work that didn't just "include" women but centered them entirely. The project was gargantuan, involving over 400 collaborators (many of them volunteers skilled in "crafts" that the fine art world dismissed—ceramics, needlework, china painting).

The essay explores how Chicago used "low" domestic crafts—like needlework and china painting

2. Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Dinner Party (1994 Drama Publication)