Art Attack
Art Attack is our after school art program for 14 to 17 years old girls in
Art Attack is an art program for girls, based on the Girls Action approach. And it’s a lot of fun!
The program engages girls in popular education workshops, discussions, physical movement, arts-based activities and games designed to:
- Build girls’ self-awareness and self-esteem;
- Increase girls’ critical thinking skills and ability to act on issues of violence and discrimination;
- Connect girls to people and resources in their community engage girls in community action projects that they develop themselves.
Our approach is participatory, with girls actively involved in setting the ground rules for the group and giving input into programming. Innovations are always happening in response to the needs of the girls.
Here’s some of the activities that we’re doing at Art Attack : Photography, photo exhibit, scrapbooking, bead and jewelry making, collages, origami, mandala, drawing, music, writing (spoken word, storytelling, poetry, etc.), dance, mural painting, zines, etc.
The program applies a popular education approach that, for each issue or topic, starts from girls’ lived experiences, shares knowledge, builds skills, develops critical thinking and moves into action. Girls Action Foundation also uses an intersecting feminist framework that recognizes and takes into account the multiple and intersecting impacts of policies and practices on different groups of girls because of their race, class, ability, sexuality, gender identity, religion, culture, refugee or immigrant status, or other status.
