Women on the rise /
MOCA's unique, gender-specific outreach program serving over 1,600 at-risk, teenage girls and young adult women (12-24) throughout Miami-Dade County.
Emphasizing self esteem and positive choices, Women on the Rise! serves the needs of at-risk girls and young women through the study of contemporary women artists who deal with such issues as body image, identity, and female empowerment in their work. The innovative program features specialized workshops in contemporary art and art history that help develop the critical thinking, communication and social skills of participants. (more)
Workshops feature artists such as Shahzia Sikander, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Janine Antoni, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yolanda Lopez, and Remedios Varo. Projects combine conventional and unconventional media like photography, painting, assemblage, sculpting, and experimental multi-media collages. (To view some of the girls' works, click on the featured artists' names.)
The program also includes field trips to MOCA and other local cultural institutions, to view exhibitions that feature contemporary, women artists. Artwork and writing created by participants are featured in an annual exhibition of WOTR!’s participants artwork and in the MOCA'zine, MOCA's teen arts journal.
Women on the Rise! Lesson Plans
Women on the Rise! lesson plans are accessible to educators on Rutgers University's Feminist Art Project FARE (Feminist Art Resources in Education web portal.
Partners
Casa Valentina
Cope Center North
Girls Advocacy Project (GAP) at the Miami-Dade Juvenile Detention Center
The Village Residential Treatment Center (treatment facility)
Pridelines Youth Services
Robert Renick Educational Center
Thelma Gibson Health Initiative
Urgent Inc.
Homestead Job Corps Center
Miami Job Corps Center
The Feminist Art Project
INFORMATION
For more information please contact Lark Keeler, Assistant Curator of Education.
Women on the rise