Melissa Leaym-Fernandez, a teacher at Flint, Michigan Community Schools, has been awarded the Judy Chicago Art Education Award for her submission titled "The Power of our Mothers." She was presented with the award in a ceremony at Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, University Park, on Tuesday, April 17.
The nonprofit art organization Through the Flower invites artists, scholars and educators to apply for the annual award named in honor of Judy Chicago, one of the Feminist Art Movement’s key founders. Penn State, through the University Libraries, is one of three institutions nationwide that houses content comprising the Judy Chicago Portal and administers the award. Applicants who have developed primary research or teaching projects related to “The Dinner Party” Curriculum Project or another project incorporating any Judy Chicago archival content may do so by the March 1 deadline.
Five scholars have won research travel awards to visit the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at University Park during the summer of 2017. As part of their visit, the scholars will each present their research projects during hourlong “learn at lunch” sessions throughout July and August in Paterno Library.
The Judy Chicago Art Education Collection, one of the most important private collections of archival materials on feminist art education, is now open to the public at Penn State University Libraries, in Room 104 Paterno Library on the University Park campus, as well as online. The collection, housed in the University Archives in the Special Collections Library, includes videos, photographs, and notes on Chicago's teaching projects.
Artist, author and educator Judy Chicago has given Penn State University Libraries the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection, one of the most important private collections of feminist art education. In collaboration with Chicago's gift, the Through the Flower organization (TTF) has given The Dinner Party Curriculum Online Project to Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture for its art education program to be sustained in conjunction with the Libraries' archive collection.
