Wayne County Arts Alliance Gallery to honor Women’s History Month with second annual Wayne County School District student art show: “The WCAA DINNER PARTY: Setting the Table for Women.”

The Wayne County Arts Alliance is excited to invite the public to join them for the opening reception of our Gallery exhibition “The WCAA Dinner Party: Setting the Table for Women” on Saturday, March 1, 3-5pm at the WCAA Gallery at 959 Main Street Honesdale.

“The WCAA Dinner Party: Setting the Table for Women,” opens the 2025 WCAA Gallery’s 2025 season and will run March 1 through March 29. The show riffs on “The Dinner Party,” a permanent installation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art by American multi-media artist Judy Chicago.  Chicago’s “//The// Dinner Party/, created between 1975 and 1979, imagines a banquet for 39 historic or mythological women, each celebrated with a unique place setting.

For “The WCAA Dinner Party,” art teachers from Wayne County’s three school districts and the Cooperage Pop-Up Club asked students, “If you could have dinner with any woman, historical or contemporary, who would she be?”

Students’ answers included Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton and Helen Keller, Greta Thunberg and Amelia Earhart, Michelle Obama, Aphrodite, and their own mothers and grandmothers. The young artists then were assigned to make two or three-dimensional works celebrating their choices.