A Multimedia Exhibition & Guide to Un-Mediafying Your Life
June 6—August 16, 2008
Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Friday, August 15, 2008 • Noon–3:30 PM
Corporate Curriculum (panel 1)
Kelly Parks Snider
acrylic & collage
Kelly Parks Snider
acrylic & collage
This workshop is an art-based media literacy curriculum training opportunity for educators, parents, artists, activists, policy makers, youth leaders, and concerned individuals who wish to become better equipped to deal with the significant challenges resulting from the transformation of children into America’s number one marketing demographic.
Cost: $35
[Download the registration form: 373 KB PDF]
Learn About:
- Harmful Effects of Media Messages: A Growing Concern
- The Project Girl Approach and Process
Participate In:
- Name It! Experiment in which you identify harmful themes and deconstruct magazine ads that target girls and women as consumers.
- Use Project Girl approach to guide girls through arts-based explorations of their popular culture.
Apply It:
- Create a curriculum to use with youth using mixed media collage reflecting influences of popular culture and media.
- Create a dialogue about the impact of labeling and exclusion.
- Create your own label to declare to the world your contents, who you are and what you care about.
- Create a body tracing that explores the inner self—your ideas, your interests, your feelings, your dreams and talents—the parts of you that extend beyond your physical appearance.
