DeKalb Area Women's Center

Collection

Identifier: RHC-RC-236

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The records for the DeKalb Area Women’s Center include membership, history and activity information. The collection includes newsletters which offer general information about the center and its activities. Also included are programs and flyers promoting the Center’s various conferences and activities. Additionally, the collection also contains information regarding the Center’s permanent art collection and its artists.

Dates

created: 1994+
Other: Date acquired: 02/00/1999

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on access to the collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Property rights in the collection belong to the Regional History Center; literary rights are dedicated to the public.

Biographical or Historical Information

The DeKalb Area Women’s Center (DAWC) was formed in November, 1993 when a group of local women came together and with the desire to create a community supportive of women’s culture. The Board of Directors formulated a philosophy, mission and goals; then incorporated as an all-volunteer, non-profit educational and cultural organization housed in the former Finnish Temperance Society Hall. The mission of the DAWC is to create a safe, supportive environment which celebrates women, promotes women’s culture, and encourages the empowerment of women, while working toward the elimination of sexism and other forms of oppression. The goal of the Center is to build a healthy and harmonious community reaching out with educational, arts, and cultural programming. In keeping with its mission, the Center has provided support groups, instructional seminars and workshops, sponsored crafts fairs, hosted dances, held concerts, offered poetry readings and Friday night coffeehouses, and screened films. Beginning in 1994, the gallery program installed solo and group art exhibits featuring mainly women artists on a monthly basis.

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