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THE WOMAN'S BUILDING

Two messages greet you when you walk through the door of the Woman's Building at 1727 North Spring Street in Los Angeles: the Woman's Building, a public center for women's culture, welcomes you; and support out community.

a public center  Women's culture has existed as long as we have. But in recent centuries it has been a private culture, a kitchen and sickroom and market-day culture, shut off from the world of public action, recognition and power. When we say we intend to make our culture public, we mean not only to make it accessible, not only to honor it, but to see it become mass culture, integrated and reflected in our daily lives.

for women's culture  Our approach is catholic; we have no strict definition of culture. We have included, so far: performance, video, painting, drawing, ceramic, needlework, poetry, drama, dance, community organizing, music graphic arts, journals, film making, administration, healing. Our concern is to discover the forms through which our daily lives, as we experience them, can be transmuted into statements, artifacts, events which accomplish our triple goal: to raise consciousness, invite dialogue, and transform culture.

welcomes you  We welcome, indeed seek out, a diversity of talents -- diverse in age, race, social background, point of view, talents. Like the rest of the feminist movement, we are predominantly white, college educated and under 35. This phenomenon, although it is slowly changing, keeps us from realizing the full richness