The issues the exhibit explores include historic changes in the home, marital conflicts and compromises, childhood fears, aging, eating disorders, sibling rivalry, abuse, rape, prejudice of race, religion and gender, meditation in the home and gender issues.
Grigor said the exhibit at Penn State supports classroom teachings of Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education in the School of Visual Arts.
"This exhibit is a great example of how the libraries work with the different colleges within the university to bring information to students," Grigor said.
Grigor said the space will be used as a lab for classroom meetings, discussions about the exhibit and a critical review of the installation prepared by museum education majors.
"The theme of the exhibit is how the home affects the individual," she said. "We all have good history and bad history from our home lives, and it presents an area for personal reflection of what home means to people."
Henry Pisciotta, arts and architecture librarian, said Keifer-Boyd's classes will be coordinating their work with two other schools in Finland and Uganda who will be doing blogging on the same themes of the exhibit.
Keifer-Boyd said she was able to openly navigate teacher-student power relationships to motivate and empower students to identify their own and others' strengths.
She said gender, status and ideology are definitely not determining factors in adopting Chicago's teaching methodology.
"Understanding Chicago's teaching processes and valuing content-based art significantly impacts one's desire and ability to use Judy Chicago's teaching methodology," she said.
She said the students' goals for their installation artwork is to stimulate dialogue.
"[The home] is associated with a lived body, a social body, a body image, a social space, a physical space and a metaphysical space symbolic of human experience," she said. "The intention of the work in the exhibit is to produce or transform a situation for the viewer participants."
