Project Womanhouse

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In Miriam Schapiro’s “The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse” she discusses the creation of Project Womanhouse from how it was conceived to its execution. Schapiro and well as Judy Chicago guided young female artists in the creation of Project Womanhouse Schapiro first discusses the class meetings at the California Institute of the Arts to brainstorm the project and what it symbolized. The house was sought out and meetings were then held there to determine what was going to go into the house. Transportation and time posed issues, but the woman who signed onto the project made it work. The project started with the literal construction of the house as there were broken windows and missing walls. After building the house, the woman