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Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW)
[edit]About
[edit]The Feminist Center for Creative Work (formally Women’s Center for Creative Work) co-founded in 2013 by Katie Bachler, Kate Johnston and Sarah Williams,[1] is a non-for-profit organisation that aims to tackle challenges faced by underrepresented communities in a creative setting. Prioritising Black and indigenous people of colour, queer people, people with marginalised genders, trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, cis women and other historically marginalised communities.[2] Located in Elysian Valley,[3] It cultivates LA’s feminist creative communities and practices.[4] Their work focuses on hosting events, exhibitions, workshops and schemes that all aim to raise awareness on various political and societal issues with a centre point of modern contemporary feminism.[5]
Missions and Core Values
[edit]The FCCW offers core values as guidelines for staff and anyone else who engages with the community and space. They connect intentions and actions from the smallest to the highest levels and help the organisation stay true to itself and community, reminding both of what they are working for and why. If anything happening at the FCCW that may not align with these values is noticed, a link to reach them is provided and consumers are encouraged to reach out and report their concerns. Written in 2018 and later revised in 2021, the values can be categorised under seven main headers; 1.Art is a form of dissent, 2.Explicitly intersectional, 3.Together we seek balance, 4.A space for active engagement, 5. A platform for creative support and the redistribution of resources, 6. An organisation that values experimentation, failure and process, 7.Modelling a world we live in.[6] These values dive much deeper into maintaining the key aspects and intentions the organisation was originally set up with and allows consistency and transparency in their actions throughout the years. They can be found here.
Co-Conspirator Press
[edit]Founded by the FCCW in 2019[7] the press is a publishing platform for artists, writers, designers, printers, social justice workers, and editors from historically underrepresented communities who use their voice to address intersectional feminist issues and challenge exclusionary, colonial, capitalist, and ableist systems.[8] The press produces high-quality multi-medium work that discusses current issues in society, along with more practical productions that assist in car maintenance for example. Sales of these productions are split 60/40 between the press and the author[8] which allows for more funding to be focused and dispersed throughout the organisation and its programmes.
Artist In Residence Program
[edit]The FCCW’s Artist-In-Residence program presents new work by women, trans and non-binary artists. The program is formed by a quarterly residence in the organisation where the artists are provided with structural and material support, along with dedicated time from all FCCW staff.[9] Artists are selected through an invitation process with the most recent being Yves B Golden. Yves’ ‘The Burden’, 2024 aims to “prompt discussion and lubricate cultural shifts which our societal continuity depends on” as a response to “crises and genocides” aided by “American tax dollars.”[10] Throughout the exhibition it explores how we re-claim our human rights in the wake of war and whether global disarmament is achievable without a universal understanding of dignity.[11]
- ^ "On establishing a feminist art space and making it sustainable". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "WCCW - Who Is Invited and centered at FCCW?". Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Women's Center for Creative Work". Current LA Food. 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Womens Library". Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Women's Center for Creative Work – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts". Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Mission & Core Values - FCCW: Feminist Center for Creative Work". fccwla.org. 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "On establishing a feminist art space and making it sustainable". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ a b "About — co—conspirator press". co-conspirator.press. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Artist In Residence - FCCW: Feminist Center for Creative Work". fccwla.org. 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
- ^ "Curate LA - Yves B. Golden, 'The Burden'".
- ^ "Feminist Center for Creative Work Presents Yves B. Golden's The Burden Curated by Seta Morton". GALLERYPLATFORM.LA. Retrieved 2024-12-11.