Through the Flower

12/17/2025

LAST DAY to order before the holidays!

Shop Through the Flower for the art lover in your life! Our store has a wonderful collection of books, posters, t shirts, and home items sure to bring a smile to their face.

All proceeds from the shop sales go directly to supporting Through the Flower’s mission to highlight women’s achievements and empower, educate, and inspire social change through art.

Orders placed on Wednesday, December 17 will be processed and shipped on Thursday, December 18th via USPS.

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12/02/2025

Today is . Through the Flower's mission is to highlight women’s achievements and empower, educate, and inspire social change through art which is more necessary now than ever. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP. It is with your generosity that we can sustain our exhibition program. Even though we are only open by appointment, we welcome hundreds of visitors each year.

PLEASE DONATE TODAY

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11/28/2025

Shop for your holiday gifts and support Through the Flower!

Starting Black Friday through Cyber Monday enjoy 20% off the entire Through the Flower shop online. Pick up our HOLIDAY BUNDLES for additional discounts! Each bundle is carefully selected to bring art, history, and inspiration into your home.

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All proceeds from the shop sales go directly to supporting Through the Flower’s mission to highlight women’s achievements and empower, educate, and inspire social change through art. Must meet all bundle requirements for the discounts to be applied at checkout.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!

For our final American Archives Month spotlight, we’re celebrating the Judy Chicago Papers Archive at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

The archive holds correspondence, writings, research notes, journals, photographs and more related to Chicago’s extensive career, including the deep research “The Dinner Party” Studio undertook.

Among the many women honored at “The Dinner Party” is Petronilla de Meath, the first woman executed for witchcraft in Ireland (1324). Petronilla was accused alongside her employer, Alice Kyteler, of heresy and sorcery. When Kyteler escaped, Petronilla was tortured and burned at the stake. Their stories reveal how fear and power were used to silence women throughout history especially those who defied expectations or wielded wealth, knowledge, and influence.

As we mark Halloween and the end of Archives Month, we recognize archives as spaces of remembrance that can ensure the reclaimed names and histories of women will not be forgotten again.

10/23/2025

October is American Archives Month! Each week we are spotlighting one of the five Judy Chicago Research Portal partners and their archive

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation holds the Judy Chicago Print Archive. Since 1965, Chicago has done something rare for contemporary artists: she’s made prints for nearly all her major series. True to her collaborative spirit, she teamed up with master printers to push the boundaries of printmaking techniques. Her print archive includes over 300 limited-edition prints, preparatory drawings and sketches, and copper plates.

“I think as more research is done, the materials will reveal more about my process and how much work goes into the formulation of each image… that will be the first step in people beginning to understand my process, which involves an enormous amount of research, preparation, and drawing.” Chicago in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nov 2020

Scroll through to see Chicago’s prints come together!

10/16/2025

October is American Archives Month! Each week we are spotlighting one of the five Judy Chicago Research Portal partners and their archive

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center holds the Judy Chicago Visual Archive. The archive includes materials from throughout the course of Chicago’s life of artmaking. Across documentary photos, ephemera, lectures, and images of studies and final works, you can explore Chicago’s artistic development spanning numerous mediums and subjects.

Scroll through the carousel to see selections from the archive!

🎨 EXPLORE THE ARCHIVES VIA JUDYCHICAGOPORTAL.ORG 🎨

10/08/2025

October is American Archives Month!

Each week we will be spotlighting one of the Judy Chicago Research Portal partners and their archive

The Nevada Museum of Art holds materials from Chicago’s extensive work with dry ice, colored smokes and fireworks to create distinct bodies of work spanning from 1967 (“Dry Ice Environments”) to the present. In contrast to her land art contemporaries, her early pyrotechnic performances sought to soften or ‘feminize’ the environment with ephemeral materials and were preserved via photographs and 16mm film (Pink Atmosphere).

Later in her career, Chicago was able to create larger scale performances with Chris Souza and Pyro Spectaculars, a team of pyrotechnic professionals. These elaborate performances required detailed notes ("Deflowering of Nye+Brown"), planning ("Butterfly for Brooklyn") and intense organization, smoke tests, site visits, and physical preparations ("Purple Poem for Miami"). Chicago titled the most recent pieces "Smoke Sculptures" because they involved literally 'painting the sky' ("Forever DeYoung")

🎆 EXPLORE THE ARCHIVES VIA JUDYCHICAGOPORTAL.ORG 🎆

10/01/2025

October is American Archives Month! Each week we will be spotlighting one of the Judy Chicago Research Portal partners and the archive they hold.

This Week’s Featured Archive: The Judy Chicago Art Education Archive at Penn State University Libraries

In 1970, Chicago led women to discover their own voice and speak about the issues that affected them with the Feminist Art Program in Fresno (image1). She went on to have teaching residencies in IU Bloomington (1999, image 2), Cal Poly Pomona (2003, image 3), and Vanderbilt University (2006, image 4) among other places.

In 2009, Chicago developed “The Dinner Party K-12 curriculum” with a team of distinguished curriculum writers at Kutztown University. The curriculum shows teachers how to integrate “The Dinner Party” into their classrooms through a series of free, downloadable pdf files. Students use the format to research women’s history and honor important figures like this Nova Scotia class (image 5).

Explore the archives via judychicagoportal.org

09/12/2025

05/02/2025

🌸 Celebrate Mother's Day with Art! 🌸

Enjoy 30% off SIGNED “The Crowning” poster from Judy Chicago!

This poster from the “Birth Project” celebrates the heroic and underrepresented imagery associated with giving birth. Judy Chicago was one of the first artists to break this historic silence and this iconic piece is the perfect gift to honor mothers and creators everywhere. She use to say; if men had babies there would be thousands of images of the crowning.

Available now through Mother’s Day — only at Through the Flower Art Space: https://throughtheflower.org/product/the-crowning-from-the-birth-project-poster/

And schedule your visit to the FREE exhibition: "From the Collection of Through the Flower"

Featuring works, preparatory materials, and ephemera from "The Dinner Party" and the "Birth Project". This is show offers a unique look into two groundbreaking feminist art projects of the 20th century.

By appointment Wed – Fri, 10 am – 4 pm.
To schedule:
📧 [email protected]
📞 505-503-1955

04/22/2025

This Earth Day, I’m returning to "Home Sweet Home" to remind us that our most important home isn’t a house or a country, it’s the Earth itself.

This image blends Pamella Nesbit's exquisite embroidery with my sprayed acrylic and oil paint so that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins, much like how our lives are intertwined with the ecosystems around us. Clustered around the globe are dwellings from different cultures, each one dependent on the same planet to survive.

If we hope to sustain this world, we must work together across borders and generations to care for the only home we have.

Judy Chicago, "Home Sweet Home" from "Family" in "Resolutions: A Stitch in Time," 2000, sprayed acrylic, oil paint, and embroidery on linen, 24 x 18 in., needlework by Pamella Nesbit, private collection. Photo by Donald Woodman

03/18/2025

✨ Josephine Baker was a trailblazing entertainer, WWII spy, and civil rights icon.✨

Her legacy lives on with her inclusion in the "Heritage Floor" of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” at Brooklyn Museum.

Make an appointment to see preparatory materials and ephemera from "The Dinner Party" in "From the Collection of Through the Flower" at Through the Flower in Belen, NM.

Learn more about the 1038 women represented in "The Dinner Party" through the .

1- “Princess Tam Tam” (1935)
2- “Zouzou” (1934)
3, 4, 13- “Siren of the Topics” (1927)
5- “Banana Dance” at the Folies Bergère in Paris, France (1927)
6- Josephine Baker distributes rations to the citizens of Paris. Photo courtesy of Gallica Digital Library.
7- Baker performing in Morocco during WW2 for French and American Troops
8- Baker receives the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, August 19, 1961
9- Baker leaving Torel Theresa in Harlem, 1951. Sherman Grinberg Library
10- Baker’s declassified FBI file
11- Footage of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. US National Archives
12- Josephine Baker speaks with Vivian Carter Mason, Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, and other NCNW members at a reception in the Boardroom at the Council House. NPS, NABWH
14- Judy Chicago. “Heritage Floor” from “The Dinner Party” (detail), 1979. Brooklyn Museum, Photo
15- "The Dinner Party," Photo
Cover- Josephine Baker in Banana Skirt from the Folies Bergère by Lucien Waléry