A Multimedia Exhibition & Guide to Un-Mediafying Your Life
June 6—August 15, 2008
About the Artists
Visual artist Kelly Parks Snider and video producer Jane Bartell began collaborating in 2000 with the mission to explore contemporary social issues through the arts. The collaboration has included the multi-media exhibition, Rural Women: Voice and Spirit, which was funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts and was featured recently at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters gallery as part of their “Future of Farming” forum. It continues to be exhibited nationally.
The team has also developed and implemented the after school arts curriculum for Edgewood Campus Grade School, created cooperative arts programming for Very Special Arts Wisconsin and for children of families participating in the Interfaith Hospitality Network, and has participated in artist-in-residence programs throughout Wisconsin. Through their collaborative projects, Kelly and Jane strive to educate communities and stimulate dialogue about targeted issues to create social change. They concentrate their efforts on programs for services for women and children with an emphasis on environmental and social issues. These include workshops on media awareness, artist-in-residence programs and interactive exhibitions made available through public and private galleries, schools, and youth and community centers.
Project Girl Twin Cities Artists include Daryll Berg, Precious Burgess, Bridget Collins, Dedrian Davis, Alexandra Dingman, Jazmine Escobedo, Shisania Jimenez, Kelsey Lappegaard, Lelan Leecy, Alyse Nicole Martin, Isaysha McCaleb, Tenzin Methak, Taira Newsome, Olivia Nofzinger, Crystal Norcross, Kara Pacheco, Anna Renken, Isabel Rousmaniere, Anna Salerno, Rebecca Schnabel, Ubah Sharif, Kazoua Vang, and Bao Yang.