News & Press Releases

Project Girl is an arts based initiative that critically examines contemporary culture and encourages girls to take back control from commercial marketers working to manipulate and shape them. Project Girl's use of art as a fundamental means of exploration gives participating girls the opportunity to express with unique freedom and depth their personal views of power, beauty and what it means to be a girl without inhibition or fear of judgment.

Project Girl is about encouraging and inspiring girls to take action. In truth, we also encourage you to take action. We hope that, as you learn more about Project girl, you'll be inspired to work with us. Our art based workshops, exhibitions and training sessions are currently expanding Project Girl's reach to thousands of girls in multiple states.

Current News

• 3/26/2009 - Madison-based ProjectGirl.org, created with the help of local girls to improve teen media literacy, announced today that it has been selected by Best Buy @15 to be one of four groups featured in their new national youth empowerment and philanthropy program called Best Buy's @15 Change Exchange project.

News Archive

• Teaching the Next Generation to Be Critical Consumers through Project Girl, Mollie Shambeau, Brava Magazine, Oct 2009.
  
• Art Exhibit gives teen girls canvas for expression, Dani McClain, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI, October 24, 2009.
  
• Girl Power Strikes Back, Gail Rosenbum, Star Tribune/Minneapolis/St. Paul, June 5, 2008.
  
• Walker Art Center Magazine, 2008 Minneapolis Workshops.
  
• Project Girl, Renee Wahlen Tillema, Inspire Magazine, January 2008, published by: Niche Publications, Inc.
  
• You Go, Girl, Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, January 22, 2008.
  
• Summer Quarterly 2007, Lyn Mikel Brown, Ph.D.
  
• Artists Aim to Make Girls Media Savvy, Duluth News Tribune, April 2007.
  
• Programs Help Girls Cut Tension, Capital Times, March 2007.
  
• Project Girl: A Catalyst for Social Change, Martin Scanlan Ph.D., Wisconsin People & Ideas, Summer 2007, published by Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.
  
• Girls and Modern Messages, Jacob Kushner, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI, March 3, 2007.
  
• Project Girl, Susan Troller, Capital Times, Madison, WI, January 11, 2007.
  
• Girls in Pop Culture, Joan Fischer, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Winter 2007, published by Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
  
• Countering Marketers’ Messages to Nation’s Girls, Margaret Krome, Capital Times, Madison, WI, March 2, 2007.
  
• Inspired Interiors, Jennifer Garrett, Madison Magazine, September 2007, published by Madison Magazine.
  
• Inspire Magazine, September 2007, published by: Niche Publications, Inc.
  
• Local Arts Center to Open Ag Women-Inspired Show, Special to Daily News, Norfolk Daily News, Norfolk, NE, August 3, 2006.
  
• Rural Women, Susan Troller, Capital Times, Madison, WI, August 9, 2005.
  
• Wisconsin Academy Review, Summer 2000, published by Wisconsin Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters.
  
• Roundtree Gallery art exhibit to honor Rural Women, Platteville, Wisconsin.