I'm really excited to be working with fellow Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) Board Member Dail Chambers work to start a new community program. We are in the midst of planning a mentor program for girls in St. Louis ages 13-19 who are interested in the arts. The program will be offered through the St. Louis Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art and we are hoping to partner with other local arts organizations.
We will use the Gya women's arts cooperative as out meet-up place. We will be working to develop programming to include workshops, portfolio development, and field trips to the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) and local art galleries. We also want to give the girls an opportunity to exhibit their art.
If you are not a member of the WCA but are interested in becoming a mentor, we are still interested in having you.
If you are interested in becoming part of the planning team, we would love to talk with you.
If you know young ladies who would enjoy being part of this program, please talk to us and we will be in touch when we get the program off the ground.
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Great idea Erica! One cool project I did with a group of at-risk girls that age was making personalized "shrines" or "icons" out of Altoids tins. Each girl collaged the outside of her tin with images, photos, words that had some meaning to her, then folded an accordion book to glue to the inside and use as a journal or keepsake box. It was really positive and the girls responded really well to it - something that doesn't always happen with teenagers. Good luck, and keep me in the loop.
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