I recently attended an informational meeting with the founders of Project Girl, a totally awesome grassroots project designed to empower girls to become more critical of manipulative and destructive media messages that they are so often a target of. Project Girl, began in Madison Wi, and is now a nationally touring visual arts exhibition and series of hands-on art-based events and workshops designed to equip girls with the tools to create the foundation for long-term change. Project Girl develops and strengthens skills they need to become more critical and informed consumers of media. Co-created by Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell, this program uses art-based workshops to build girl communities supporting resistance to harmful media messages. In addition to visual, literary, digital and video artwork by professional artists, the exhibition includes some amazing artwork by Project Girl adolescent artists who were guided during each media deconstruction workshop to express their own interpretations of media messages.
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.I am so excited to have found this project as it fits so perfectly with my own interests!
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