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Project Girl

4711 County Highway B
Oregon, WI  53575
Phone: 608-576-2847
Contact: Kelly Snider
kpsnider@charter.net
www.projectgirl.org

Who We Are:

The mission of Art in Action is to explore contemporary social issues through the arts. Art in Action’s objective is to educate communities and stimulate dialogue about targeted issues to create social change.  Project Girl, Art in Action’s most recent undertaking, combines art, media literacy and youth led community leadership into a unique educational program aimed at encouraging its constituencies of adolescent and high school girls (aged 11-17) from broad socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds to become more critical consumers of contemporary media advertising and entertainment.

Project Girl does not try to keep girls away from the real world; it does not try to protect or hide them from their media-based culture but to join with them in understanding it.  The goal of Project Girl is to help girls become literate in all media forms—TV, internet, movies, magazines, newspapers, billboards, books, product labels, and music—so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the interpretation control them.

Project Girl uses art to further its objective of uniting youth, to bring girls together to work for change. Through Project Girl, girls learn to support each other. To widen their definition of who they are, and what they really care about. Ongoing youth leadership in development and operation of Project Girl is central.  Ideas and directives contributed by girls set the course and methodology used in examining ways in which media messages affect self-esteem, self perceptions, values, sexuality, violence, fear, body image, nutrition, eating disorders, cliques, popularity, materialism, brand conditioning/stereotyping, and selfishness.

Project Girl’s benefits young women in all communities reached to become healthier, both physically and mentally, who engage with their contemporary culture in a thoughtful, discerning manner, create their own media, and provide leadership through the process of sharing ideas and opinions for the benefit others.


Volunteer Opportunities:

bullet Network with Minnesota communities to help mobilize Project Girl events and educational programs throughout Minnesota.
bullet Help coordinate art-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girl groups, and peer-to-peer high school girl workshops, at school and/or community groups throughout Minnesota.
bullet Participate in media literacy training if you wish to reach out to communities to create localized media literacy programming in Minnesota communities.
bullet Plan a “train the trainer” session in your community.  Project Girl trains individuals throughout the country to conduct Project Girl media literacy workshops.  
bullet Sponsor, or help fundraise for, the cost of Media Literacy Educational Took Kits, the cost to run media literacy workshops, and the cost to run “train the trainer” workshops.   Each organization that conducts training receives a Media Literacy Educational Tool Kit providing all materials necessary to conduct independent Project Girl art-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girl groups and peer-to-peer high school girl workshops.
bullet Support funding to Intermedia Arts.  Intermedia Arts is a sister organization to Project Girl.  Project Girl and Intermedia Arts partnered in summer 2008. Intermedia Art offers workshops for underserved youth. Continued funding support and scholarship is necessary to keep workshops available in the Minneapolis area.  Intermedia Arts is Minnesota’s premier multidisciplinary, multicultural arts organization. Intermedia Arts engage the power of the arts to increase connections and build community between people from different social, economic and ethnic groups. The mission of Intermedia Arts is to be a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art; our work inspires people to make changes in their lives and communities. By stimulating broader civic dialogue and by giving voice to the issues and experiences of underrepresented communities, we contribute to a stronger, healthier society.

 

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