In the context of the solo show 'The Materiality of Judy Chicago', on 18 September 2026, our Venice gallery hosted a talk entitled 'Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: The Making Of'. It unfolded as a conversation between Diane Gelon, who worked on The Dinner Party and helped to organize its worldwide, grass roots tour, and Francesco Spampinato, Director of the Second Cycle Degree in Visual Arts at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Drawing on Diane Gelon’s first-hand experience of the project, the event focused on the making of 'The Dinner Party', Judy Chicago’s most famous work, exploring the five-year process behind the work and the collaborative aspect that characterized its studio while tracing its exhibition history and circulation from the 1970s through the 1990s, until its final acquisition.
