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Jan 29, 76

Dear Barbara...

I'm not sure why, but your name sounds familiar. have we corresponded before?

I am writing to you, having received your letter from the art institute in S.F., (where I still teach one class each semester) about the Feminist Studio Workshop, The Workshop is a very exciting concept in education, and the article in Human Behavior only touched on one aspect of it, the "outreach" programs. All six women on the FSW staff, myself included, are committed to reaching the widest audience possible for our notions of feminist education. The program at SFAI, as well as the class I teach there now, are considered by us to be "outreach" In addition, many of us do short lecture and workshop programs in other areas, when invited by schools, etc.

The feminist Studio Workshop is an educational institution whose purpose is to build a feminist community in which all people can work cooperatively to establish control of their lives in mutually responsible ways. The Workshop is expressed in several ways, which constitutes the whole of our program:

1. The Feminist Studio Workshop Program: is an expression of the purpose of the FSW. The intensive two-year educational experience expands women's ability to express themselves individually and collectively and communicate their experience through art. In the FSW, art is a means of raising consciousness, inviting the dialogue and transforming culture. A collective of six women in visual and language related fields provides a feminist educational process through which women more from a situation of mutual oppression to a situation of mutual support.

The workshop program consists of two nine month years for women interested in studying feminist culture in an all-women environment. The program changes each year to fit the needs of the women who come  here and our own changing and growing concepts of feminist education. This year we have forty five women students and six faculty who are participating in a program which has several consecutive parts; for the first three months of the program which began in Octover, we worked together on a group project, focusing on issues which related toour own individual and personal development and our group development as a supportive community of women. We worked to finish the Woman's Building for our grand opening on Dec15, and created work which constituted our first group show. We are now beginning the second part of the program which consists of a continuation of our community and personal development within the structure of various l workshops and projects on design, graphics, art and art history, performance and writing. Our focus is on the development and of one's goals and directions in life wit