The quest: to find themselves, to make art, to change the culture.In 1973, CalArts teachers artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and art historian Arlene Raven were finally finished with trying to offer feminist education in a male-dominated institution like CalArts.

[8] The registry they created included the "[artists'] books, resumes, correspondence, postcards, and samples of [their] art in the form of sketches, drawings, and prints" from 1970 to 1992.

In the 1940s, the building had been converted into a warehouse, consisting of three floors of open space, making it ideal for FSW's classes and exhibitions.

[2] One of Kate Millett's statues that she had originally created for her work Naked Ladies was installed on top of the building in 1978 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the art center.

Readers in the series included Meridel LeSueur, Honor Moore, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich.

A group piece, In Mourning and in Rage, created by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, featured 10 tall women, wearing 7-foot-tall head extensions, draped in black, standing on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall.

That year all three of the founding members left, and former students Terry Wolverton, Sue Maberry and Cheri Gaulke led the organization.

[3] The performance group Sisters of Survival, which formed in 1981, exhibited and toured across the United States and Europe to protest nuclear weapon proliferation.

Pauli De Witt replaced Wolverton, staying only briefly and failing to rescue the organization financially.

[2] They continued to hold the Vesta Awards, with keynote speaker Lucy Lippard and proceeds going towards an oral history of the organization.

[3] In 1991, Sandra Golvin, president of the board of directors, donated the Woman's Building records to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.