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Body Tracing, Alexandra (age 14), acrylic & collage, 2006
A Multimedia Exhibition & Guide to Un-Mediafying Your Life
Project Girl believes that it is not the girls, but rather the culture in which they live that is in need of repair and that art is the tool to begin the transformation.
Project Girl mobilized communities through art-based education and exploration, and is a broad-based catalyst for changing the way girls interpret and respond to popular media advertising and entertainment. Using art as a means to reflect, express, and transform, Project Girl workshops, curriculum, lectures and traveling art exhibition provide an easy-to-follow and easily adaptable roadmap for educators and girl group leaders to critically examine our contemporary media-based culture and explore key media literacy themes and issues with adolescent girls. Founded in 2006 by visual artist Kelly Parks Snider and videographer Jane Bartell, Project Girl reached thousands nationwide.
Arts-based media literacy workshops were offered to over 100 Minneapolis/St Paul middle and high school girls and led by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D, author of Packaging Girlhood and co-creator of Hardy Girls Healthy Women and featuring Project Girl co-creators visual artist Kelly Parks Snider & video producer Jane Bartell.
Learn more at the Project Girl website: www.projectgirl.org.
Project Girl Day Camp! Led by renowned spoken word artist Desdemona and celebrated visual artist Katrina Knudson, the girls learned to think critically about today's popular media advertising and entertainment, and spend their week exploring new ideas through poetry, drawing, collage and graffiti.
Girls Learned About: Harmful Effects of Media Messages: A Growing Concern and the Project Girl Approach and Process.
Girls Participated In: Identifying harmful themes and deconstructing magazine ads that target girls and women as consumers. Arts-based explorations of their popular culture by using the Project Girl approach.
Apply it: By creating a curriculum to use with youth using mixed media collage reflecting influences of popular culture and media. By creating a dialogue about the impact of labeling and exclusion. By creating your own label to declare to the world, who you are and what you care about. By creating 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.
Corporate Curriculum (detail), Kelly Parks Snider, acrylic & collage
Corporate Curriculum was a workshop geared towards art-based media literacy curriculum training for educators, parents, artists, activists, policy makers, youth leaders, and concerned individuals in order to become better equipped to deal with the significant challenges resulting from the transformation of children into America’s number one marketing demographic.
Respect Me, Kelly Parks Snider, mixed media, 2006
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 featured: 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.
Project Girl was made possible in part with the support of The National Conference for Media Reform, Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, The Emily Program,Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys, New Moon Girl Media through partnership.
Project Girl
Body Tracing, Alexandra (age 14), acrylic & collage, 2006
A Multimedia Exhibition & Guide to Un-Mediafying Your Life
Project Girl believes that it is not the girls, but rather the culture in which they live that is in need of repair and that art is the tool to begin the transformation.
Project Girl mobilized communities through art-based education and exploration, and is a broad-based catalyst for changing the way girls interpret and respond to popular media advertising and entertainment. Using art as a means to reflect, express, and transform, Project Girl workshops, curriculum, lectures and traveling art exhibition provide an easy-to-follow and easily adaptable roadmap for educators and girl group leaders to critically examine our contemporary media-based culture and explore key media literacy themes and issues with adolescent girls. Founded in 2006 by visual artist Kelly Parks Snider and videographer Jane Bartell, Project Girl reached thousands nationwide.
Arts-based media literacy workshops were offered to over 100 Minneapolis/St Paul middle and high school girls and led by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D, author of Packaging Girlhood and co-creator of Hardy Girls Healthy Women and featuring Project Girl co-creators visual artist Kelly Parks Snider & video producer Jane Bartell.
Learn more at the Project Girl website: www.projectgirl.org.
Project Girl Day Camp! Led by renowned spoken word artist Desdemona and celebrated visual artist Katrina Knudson, the girls learned to think critically about today's popular media advertising and entertainment, and spend their week exploring new ideas through poetry, drawing, collage and graffiti.
Girls Learned About: Harmful Effects of Media Messages: A Growing Concern and the Project Girl Approach and Process.
Girls Participated In: Identifying harmful themes and deconstructing magazine ads that target girls and women as consumers. Arts-based explorations of their popular culture by using the Project Girl approach.
Apply it: By creating a curriculum to use with youth using mixed media collage reflecting influences of popular culture and media. By creating a dialogue about the impact of labeling and exclusion. By creating your own label to declare to the world, who you are and what you care about. By creating 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.
Corporate Curriculum (detail), Kelly Parks Snider, acrylic & collage
Corporate Curriculum was a workshop geared towards art-based media literacy curriculum training for educators, parents, artists, activists, policy makers, youth leaders, and concerned individuals in order to become better equipped to deal with the significant challenges resulting from the transformation of children into America’s number one marketing demographic.
Respect Me, Kelly Parks Snider, mixed media, 2006
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 featured: 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.
Project Girl was made possible in part with the support of The National Conference for Media Reform, Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, The Emily Program,Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys, New Moon Girl Media through partnership.
