Events Calendar

March 1, 2010 – April 1, 2010
Estrella Mountain Community College
3000 North Dysart Road
Avondale, AZ 85392
623.935.8000
www.estrellamountain.edu

May 2010 - August 2010
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
University Gallery
1725 State Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
608.785.8829
www.uwlax.edu

Saturday, March 6th
8:30-11:30 AM
Center for Teaching and Learning
Estrella Mountain Community College

Due to space limitation, RSVP is required (olga.tsoudis@estrellamountain.edu or jennifer.means@estrellamountain.edu)
Art Exhibit will be on campus from March 1-March 31st, open to the public

Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training

Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day arts-based workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, and concerned parents, high school girls, and college students interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls.

This training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl's unique arts based media literacy curriculum. This workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in a unique reflective and expressive art experience, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's arts-based curriculum.

It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.

Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.

This project is funded by the Estrella Mountain Community College Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Studies Division, Arts, Languages and Composition Division, International and Intercultural Education, and Fine Arts.

Friday, January 22, 2010

$40 (non-credit registration only)
$20 (UW-L students and those individuals registered for graduate credit)

Graduate Credit option available

1-5 p.m.
Cleary Alumni & Friends Center, UW-L

Workshop also offered in a morning session on a limited basis:
7:45-11 a.m. (call 608.785.6508 or langaard.kare@uwlax.edu)
202 Center for the Arts, UW-La Crosse

Described as a media self-defense course for pre-teens and teens and a vaccination against the harmful messages of advertisement and other media, Project Girl uses arts-based projects that empower girls to become active interpreters of mass and commercial culture. This hands-on workshop provides a roadmap to this nationally recognized community art program.

Learners will:

• Participate in a uniquely reflective and expressive art experience
• Learn facilitation skills to explore the following with adolescent girls:
  • media literacy
  • stereotypes and labeling
  • body image and the beauty myth
  • consumerism
  • real girl power
• Plan projects within your school, university and community setting

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Participants are invited to exhibit their students' work in the Wisconsin Art Education Association fall conference at UW-L. www.wiarted.org

About the Presenters:

Kelly Parks Snider (visual artist) and Jane Bartell (video producer) are the co-creators of Project Girl, founded in 2006. Bio...

PROJECT GIRL, an arts-based program helps adolescent girls increase their awareness about the influences and impacts of commercial media as it defines beauty and success. The PROJECT GIRL EXHIBITION, which was the culmination of a two-year exploration of the effects of contemporary media on young teens' live and attitudes, debuted in spring 2007 at Edgewood College in Madison. The PROJECT GIRL EXHIBITION and related workshops have traveled to several Art Centers. The exhibition and workshops are currently scheduled in Appleton, Madison, La Crosse, Sioux City, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois.

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Saturday November 14
Edgewood College Predolin Center, Room 116
Registration: 8:45am-9:00am, Workshop: 9:00am-1:30pm
Cost: $30.00 donation (Scholarships available, teens attend free of charge)

Seats are filling fast! RSVP today!
Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net

Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training

Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. This half-day training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl’s unique media literacy curriculum.

The workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in interactive role playing, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl’s curriculum.

It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they’ve never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.

Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.

Wisconsin Arts Education Conference
Project Girl will be presenting
2009 WAEA FALL CONFERENCE will be held at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design & the Milwaukee Art Museum. October 29 - 30, 2009

Brochure for Fall Conference at MIAD click here (large file please wait for download)

Chicago Area

Event sponsored by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services

September 18th, 2009
9am to 1pm
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Hall
3241 S. Federal St.

Contact Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net

An Invitation & Call to Action

Wednesday, May 13th
37 S. Wabash Avenue, Room 404
10:00AM-12:00PM

Project Girl is planning its Chicago mobilization.

Project Girl is bringing together independent thinkers throughout the Chicago area to help formulate a community-based action plan. Your involvement is crucial.

It is essential that young people everywhere become educated, supported, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl’s proven arts-based approach gives kids the critical tools to look at their contemporary culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.

Join us for a planning session hosted at the Chicago Art Institute.

Project Girl uses art to unite us—to bring us together to work towards change. Join us!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Registration: 8:45am-9:00am
Workshop: 9:00am to 1:30pm
Cost: $30.00 Donation (Scholarships available, teens attend free of charge)
Edgewood College
Predolin Humanities center (room 116)
1000 Edgewood College Drive • Madison, Wisconsin 53711
Space Limited—RSVP: Kelly Parks Snider, Jane Bartell, jabartell@tds.net

Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this half day workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. This half-day training workshop is designed to equip group facilitators and high school peer to peer trainers with the necessary tools to successfully assist in conducting independent Project Girl workshops using Project Girl's unique media literacy curriculum.

The workshop will guide future facilitators and peer to peer trainers through the process of exploring the following topics with adolescent girls: 1) basic media literacy concepts; 2) stereotypes and labeling; 3) body image and the beauty myth; 4) consumerism; and 5) real girl power. Participants take part in interactive role playing, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's curriculum.

It is essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes.

Learning to facilitate Project Girl workshops offers a unique and enriching opportunity for adults and young women to get active and become the change they want to see in the world. Project Girl peer to peer trainers are an important part of the solution to the harmful effects of media messages on the lives of girls everywhere.

Marian High School
"Where Girls Are First" City-Wide Media Literacy Conference
7400 Military Avenue
Omaha, Nebraska 68134
Art-based workshop sessions with middle school girls to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Workshops will include lecture by leading authority Lyn Mikel Brown, author of "Packaging Girlhood." There will also be an evening Exhibition opening and reception with visual artists and Project Girl co-creators Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell, Coco McAtee, MSW, and Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, presenting information on the ramifications of our media-based consumer culture on the lives of adolescent girls. The event will be family-based, but discussions will be targeted to parents and educators.
Contact: 402-571-2618 www.marianhighschool.net

Monday, April 20, 2009
12:00 to 4:30 PM
Neighborhood House at the Wellstone Center
179 Robie Street East • St. Paul, MN 55107

Project Girl Media Literacy Curriculum Training
Project Girl facilitators Kelly Parks-Snider and Jane Bartell will facilitate this arts-based workshop session for girl group leaders, educators, girl allies, concerned parents, and high school girls interested in assisting in conducting Project Girl arts-based media literacy workshops for adolescent girls. It's essential that girls everywhere become educated, supported, equipped, and inspired to be critical consumers of media. Project Girl's proven arts-based approach gets girls asking questions they've never heard asked before and gives them critical tools to look at their contemporary media based culture with smarter, more resistant eyes. Participants take part in a unique reflective and expressive art experience, equipping them to replicate this essential component of Project Girl's arts-based curriculum.

March 30, 2009
Monona Terrace, Madison, WI

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Un-Mediafy Your Life!
Come experience this art-based workshop that gives you the tools you need to look at media through smarter eyes. Create incredible artwork, hang out with other girls and make new friends. Explore stereotypes and labeling, body image and the beauty myth, consumerism, real girl power, and sisterhood. Plus, take your artwork home or your art can be exhibited in the Project Girl Expo at the American Family Children's Hospital (Madison)! Sponsor: Project Girl (www.projectgirl.org)

Colby College
Waterville, Maine
Freshwater Arts
All day workshop facilitator training preparing for April, 2008 statewide girl conference which will include a Project Girl Exhibition.
Contact: Hardy Girls
Major Sponsors:Hardy Girls Healthy Women

1605 North Spring Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Two half day facilitator training workshops for future exhibition docents and community girl allies and group leaders.
Contact: 920-885-3635

Major Sponsors:Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation, Inc. Melodie & Tom Willihnganz American Association of University Women, Beaver Dam Branch Derr & Villarreal, Attorneys
Seippel Center for the Arts
1605 North Spring Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916

2008 Girl Talk Conference
Talkin' You, Talkin' Body Talkin' Spirit
Lutheran Campus Center
University of Wisconsin
325 N. Mills Street
Madison, WI 53715
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 from throughout Wisconsin and hosted by University of Wisconsin student mentors, the evening workshop is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Girls will be challenged to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform.
Contact: 608-257-7178, LCCMadison@rso.wisc.edu, cost=$20.00, registration forms online at www.lccmadison.com.
Sponsors:Lutheran Campus Center

February 26, 2008
Alverno College
3400 South 43rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53234-3401
All day facilitator training workshop for Alverno faculty, students, and local girl allies.
9:00am-12:00pm.
Contact: 414-382-6000
Sponsors:

Peprich Center for Arts Education
6125 Olsen Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, Minneapolis
(Western Minneapolis suburbs)
763-591-4739

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Walker.org
Free First Saturday
Day long art-based workshops dedicated to helping youth and parents become more critical consumers of media.
Sponsors:Medtronic Foundation WCCO TV Channel 4 CBS affiliate

Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center and State Capital
Madison, WI
On Arts Day, representatives of all parts of Wisconsin's extraordinary arts community come together for one day to:

• Celebrate all that's happening in the arts across Wisconsin
• Connect with old and new friends
• Educate legislators about the importance of investing in the arts, to strengthen Wisconsin's economy, educational system, and social infrastructure.

Each year, representatives of the arts from around Wisconsin -- small rural choirs and suburban community theaters, presenters and big organizations, museums and art centers of all sizes, painters, tenors, dancers, cellists, French horn players, arts administrators, board members and YOU --join together for this big day. Past participants have enthusiastically reported two things about Arts Day.
Contact:: 608-255-8316, info@artswisconsin.org
Sponsors: Arts Wisconsin

Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Saturday, March 29, 10 am – 5 pm
Star Tribune Art Lab
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 the day long workshop is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Students will be challenged to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Presented in conjunction with the Girls in the Director's Chair Film showcase. To register or for more information email teenprograms@walkerart.org.

Edgewood High School
829 Edgewood College Drive
Madison, WI 53711
Evening workshop, 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Training Edgewood High School girls to be Project Girl peer-to-peer facilitators to elementary and middle school students. Girls will be given tools and techniques to sharpen their media literacy skills and ability to deconstruct media messages.
Contact: 608-663-4100
Sponsor: Edgewood Star Girl Club, Edgewood High School

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Exhibition opening May 30-August 16, 2008
Two half day art-based workshop sessions with middle school girls to heighten their awareness of the harmful effects of media messages, and increase their ability to critically deconstruct commercial messages. They will also learn ways they can use their power to take action for productive changes and reform. Workshops will include lecture by leading authority Lyn Mikel Brown, author of "Packaging Girlhood." There will also be an evening Exhibition opening and reception with Kelly Parks Snider, Jane Bartell, and Lyn Mikel Brown presenting information on the ramifications of our media-based consumer culture. The event will be family-based, but discussions will be targeted to parents and educators. Contact: 612-871-4444, info@intermediarts.org

Santa Fe, New Mexico
All day facilitator training workshop for local artists, University of New Mexico art educators and students, and local girl allies.
Sponsor: Private Donor Girls Inc.

Milwaukee Art Museum
700 N. Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Open to young girls ages 10 – 14 the series of weekly art-based workshops is dedicated to making girls better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. Contemporary media images of girls and women will be compared and contrasted with women as depicted in the Milwaukee Art Museum's permanent collection.
Contact: 414-224-3200, mam@mam.org

October 14- November 7, 2008
Opening reception to be announced
Alverno College
3400 South 43rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53234-3401