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Dear Sister,

We appreciate your response to our Feminist Studio Workshop program, now in its fifth year of existence at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Our Los Angeles feminist artists community has continued to expand [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] over these past years until [[strikethrough]] it has become recognized [[/strikethrough]] The Woman's Building has become a nationally recognized institution for women' culture. Indeend, we can now point to an exciting feminist [[strikethrough]] art [[/strikethrough]] aesthetic which has emerged from our educational programs in the fields of writing, graphics, visual, and performance arts... and we continue to [[strikethrough]] write and be written about by the feminist and art communities [[/strikethrough]] achieve critical written attention from the art and feminist communities as we work toward creating recognition of women creators.

Our ideas, our art, and our projects continue to blossom. Supporting ourselves physically, however, is a continuing struggle, as I'm sure you will be able to appreciate from your own experience. Each of us who works at and with the Woman's Building [[strikethrough]] does so while [[/strikethrough]] has come to [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] an understand[[strikethrough]]ing of the need to [[/strikethrough]] that the first issue facing all feminists, all women's institutions, and indeed all women is their physical [[strikethrough]] and e (and spiritual) [[/strikethrough]] survival. We see that [[strikethrough]] maintaining [[/strikethrough]] a [[strikethrough]] feminist [[/strikethrough]] woman's institution, [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] one committed to putting forth a positive [[strikethrough]] political [[/strikethrough]] feminist perspective--is an important--the important--political act. for us during these times of backlash against the gains we'[[strikethrough]]ve fourhgt [[/strikethrough]] won [[strikethrough]] for from the early 70's, [[/strikethrough]] during the past few years.

The second issue facing us is closely connected to the first: [[strikethrough]] as women- [[/strikethrough]] to forge the link of community which connects us as women, as people, across ideological, racial, and personal difference: [[strikethrough]] It is ten continue the development of our [[/strikethrough]] The Woman's Building is about community: [[strikethrough]] creating it [[/strikethrough]] creating the space for it to develope whtough each woan's [[strikethrough]] individual [[/strikethrough]] exploration of herself and her sisters and her relationship to the world. And it is about communiy responsibility, as each of us who comes into contact with the building begins to realize her part in the [[strikethrough]] surv [[/strikethrough]] physical and spiritual survival of our institution.

You've indicated you will be (or might be) joining us for our FSW program this year. In the past we have waited until your arrival to begin the [[strikethrough]] plow and process [[/strikethrough]] educational process of our coming to consciuosness about our responsibility for creating the FSW as a progr