Summer 2018 Reflections
As we welcome the new school year, we reflect on the great summer we had. From our photography project, Your Story is My Story, with Oxford Day Academy, participating in science technology, engineering, and math with Streetcode Academy. To learning about fashion with Design X. Our girls have proven that anything is possible when given the opportunity to discover, create, and grow.
YOUR STORY IS MY STORY
Your Story is My Story is a Girls to Women project led by multi-media artists during in and out of school programming to promote youth making art as a form of activism.
Teaching artist & photojournalist, Colleen Cummins, lead an 8 week photography workshop through a social justice lens to Oxford Day Academy high school students from East Palo Alto. Taking inspiration from Michelle Obama's powerful speech to young girls, “The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls,” in Your Story is My Story, participants identified topics that matter to them as young women. Topics such as identity, body image pressures, impacts of social media, the male gaze vs female gaze, and racism inspired their art. Through journaling, group discussions, photography, and other visual arts mediums, students created portraits that advocated for young women, and those who identify, to voice their stories and rights for equality, safety, and community support.
Photographs were on display at our local community-supporting cafe, Cafe Zoe this summer.
Teaching artist & photojournalist, Colleen Cummins, lead an 8 week photography workshop through a social justice lens to Oxford Day Academy high school students from East Palo Alto. Taking inspiration from Michelle Obama's powerful speech to young girls, “The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls,” in Your Story is My Story, participants identified topics that matter to them as young women. Topics such as identity, body image pressures, impacts of social media, the male gaze vs female gaze, and racism inspired their art. Through journaling, group discussions, photography, and other visual arts mediums, students created portraits that advocated for young women, and those who identify, to voice their stories and rights for equality, safety, and community support.
Photographs were on display at our local community-supporting cafe, Cafe Zoe this summer.
