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The New Mexico Women’s Foundation will honor artist and author Judy Chicago May 7 at its annual meeting and award lunch.
Chicago will receive the Alice Paul Award, given to a woman who has exhibited a commitment and devotion to improving the lives and status of women in society.
The award is named in memory of Alice Stokes Paul, who dedicated her life to securing equal rights for women. She led the final campaign for women’s right to vote.
Besides being an artist and author, Chicago is a feminist, educator and the founder of Through the Flower. Her most well-known work, “The Dinner Party,” is an iconic work celebrating women’s achievements in history. It is housed permanently at the Brooklyn Museum of Art as the centerpiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Another well-known work, “The Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light,” premiered in 1993 at the Spertus Museum in Chicago and then traveled to museums throughout the United States until 2002.
Chicago has written or co-written a dozen books.
The awards lunch will be at 11:45 a.m. at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa, 330 E. Palace in Santa Fe. Reservations are $60 per person and should be requested by April 22 by calling 505-983-6155 or online at info@nmwf.org.
