In the fall of 1971, a group of women began renovating 533 Mariposa Street in Hollywood. This old mansion would become the Womanhouse, a collaborative project directed by artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, along with many others. When working with female artists, Chicago and Schapiro noted that oftentimes instead of making art women would continuously doubt themselves because they believed they were viewed as second-class citizens to men. Chicago and Schapiro encouraged the women to create works in the Womanhouse that explored their problems visually, with the goal of empowering the artists to feel more confident in their art making abilities. Providing a unique space of artistic exploration and female role models pushed the women to turn Womanhouse into a funhouse-esque place where each room explored a different issue brought up by the women related to topics of forced domesticity and their assumed female passivity. Though the Womanhouse was only open for a month in the winter of 1972, it is regarded as a noteworthy example of art that came out of a community of like-minded people meant to provoke those who degraded women.