Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Feminist art museum in Brooklyn Museum, United States.
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is a dedicated wing within the Brooklyn Museum, spread across several floors with gallery spaces for works by women artists and feminist perspectives. It includes a permanent installation space as well as rooms for rotating exhibitions that change regularly.
The center opened in 2007 as one of the first major public museums in the United States to set aside a permanent space for feminist art and women artists. Its creation was made possible by a private gift that funded the construction of a dedicated area within the Brooklyn Museum.
The center shows works that use everyday objects, personal stories, and craft techniques like ceramics and textiles to raise questions about gender and society. Visitors can see how artists from very different backgrounds approach the same themes in different ways.
The center is on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn Museum and is reached through the museum's main entrance. It is worth setting aside enough time for a visit, since there is both a permanent gallery and changing exhibitions to see.
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago is a large installation on permanent display at the center, featuring 39 place settings for historical female figures, each crafted by hand using ceramics and textiles. The work was completed in 1979 and traveled to many countries for years before finding a permanent home here.
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