Study for Birth Hood

Renowned Feminist artist Judy Chicago was born Judy Cohen in 1939 in Chicago,Illinois. Despite growing up in the shadow of the Great Depression, her parents were bothintellectually oriented and liberal for the time, and sought to foster their children’sambitions. Chicago began showing an affinity for drawing as a very small child, andbegan taking art classes at the Institute of Chicago before she was ten years old. She latercontinued her studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with herMFA in 1964.

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