![]() ![]() A powerful counter-force of visibility is to be found in shining a light on the rooms - the studios, boardrooms, showrooms, classrooms, and mansions of the mind - in which today’s creative women make their work, make their money, and make themselves. Today, as we awaken to a world in which equality is in real and imminent danger of being tossed into a time machine, we have to wonder what it takes to counter the forces determined to ignore, deny, or trivialize women’s work. Exactly half a century earlier, Virginia Woolf had famously insisted that a woman must have money and a room of her own in order to create. ![]() “Women had always made a significant contribution to the development of human civilization, but these were consistently ignored, denied, or trivialized,” artist Judy Chicago wrote at the height of the women’s liberation movement in her iconic 1979 celebration of women’s place in creative culture. ![]()
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