At Home

in Kentucky

In 2001, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman worked with students at Western Kentucky University. Chicago and Woodman returned to the theme of Womanhouse with emotionally powerful installations throughout a house in Kentucky. The archives include a 1:12 scaled-model of the artwork.

“AT HOME” in the Archives

Below are links to pdf and media files of materials from the At Home teaching project in the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection archived at The Eberly Special Collections at Penn State. Publications are available in alternative media on request.

Preparations

• Readings
  • Judy Chicago’s introductory slide presentation notes “Art Pedagogy/Art Practice” (archive box 11, folder 6)
• Research

  • Research can be completed individually or in a group, look at what participants studied as a group in the Colloquia Series Schedule

• Self Presentations
• Building Group
  • Group meetings facilitate the building of community
• Content Search
• Artmaking Goals
  • Schedule and Goals for the project
  • Models for the project
    • The First Floor
    • The Garage
    • The Second Floor
    • The Basement
• Additional Writings
  • “Traumatology” article by Vivian Green Fryd, 2009 (Box 11, 9)

Process

• Work Mode Selection
• Media Selection
  • At Home Slide Selection A
  • At Home Slide Selection B
• Format Decisions
  • Chicago talks to students to resolve format issues
• Ideal to Real
• Support Structure

ArtMaking

• Participant Selection
• From Process to Image
  • a storyboard from the project
  • art making in process within the house
• Balancing Support and Guidance
• Content-based Critique
  • Four of the eleven rooms with epistemologies of ignorance critique prompts:
    • Eating_Disorder_Bathroom
    • Nightmare_Nursery
    • Prejudice_Basement
    • Rape_Garage
• Audience
  • Exhibition panel from the At Home final exhibition
  • project images
• Evaluations
  • Grading Criteria for the project