Leonarda Cianciulli

01Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' features 39 ceramic vulva-plates for women including Sojourner Truth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Virginia Woolf.
02The installation required over 400 volunteer workers and five years of labor before its 1979 debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
03The Heritage Floor beneath the table lists 999 additional women's names in gold on porcelain tiles — women who didn't even get a plate.

Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

Leonarda Cianciulli boiled three women into soap and stirred their fat into teacakes she served to neighbors in Correggio. Her motive: she believed human sacrifice would protect her son from dying in World War II.