Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making was the first museum exhibition to examine Chicago’s evolving plans for The Dinner Party (1974–79), detailing its development as a multilayered artwork, a triumph of community art-making, and a testament to the power of historical revisionism. The exhibition presented rarely seen test plates, research documents, ephemera, notebooks, and preparatory drawings from 1971 through 1979 alongside The Dinner Party, encouraging exploration of its formal, conceptual, and material progress.