May 29 – 31, 2013
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PRESENTS
2ND
ANNUAL GIRLS SUMMIT
May 29, 30, 31
INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO GIRLS EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT FOR
EDUCATORS, THERAPISTS, ACTIVISTS AND STUDENTS
Join educators of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s acclaimed Women on the Rise! program
and noted girls’ scholars, activists and educators, for a three-day intensive conference on
innovative approaches to education and empowerment for young women. Designed for
educators, artists, counselors, therapists and anyone who works with girls and young women,
the second annual Girls Summit will be held at MOCA (770 NE 125
Wednesday, May 29 – Friday, May 31. Through an active program of hands-on
workshops, performances, panel discussions, and film screenings, the Girl’s Summit will
address issues such as access to healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, body image,
girls’ health and sexuality, and gender non-conformity.
Admission for the three-day summit is $30 for all three days or $10 per day. The programs run
continuously from 10 am – 4:30 pm, with evening programs from 7:30 to 9 pm. Students with
ID are admitted free of charge. Miami-Dade County educators may earn Teacher-in-Service
credit. To reserve, visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211. The 2
is presented by Museum of Contemporary Art’s MOCA Art Institute and is co-sponsored by The
Girls’ Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale.
The opening day of the Girls Summit, Wednesday May 29, will focus on food justice.
Sheri Davis-Faulkner, PhD. will discuss corporate obesity in her talk “Critical Race Feminist
Media Praxis: Methods for Reading Black Girls Bodies Within, Across and Beyond Health
Marketing Frames.” Erin Healy from the Miami-based Youth L.E.A.D (Leading Environmental
Activism through Democracy) will direct a workshop on the environmental and social impact of
industrial food production and sustainable, just solutions. Artist Crystal Pearl will discuss cultural
backgrounds and dietary choices as portrayed in her series of work “Food Body.” Lori Ross,
Director of Programs for Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida will present the workshop “It’s
Your Planet- Love It!”
Each afternoon from 4-7 pm of the three-day conference, youth programming will be held
for groups from Breakthough Miami, Girl Power, Urgent Inc., Honeyshine, Pridelines Youth
Services, and PACE Center for Teens.
A highlight of the Girl’s Summit will be an interactive performance that evening at 7:30
pm by the artist collaborative Disorientalism. Entitled “Brown Bagging: Quality
is Our Recipe”, the performance explores race and labor in American food production
and promotion through historical food industry characters such as Wendy of Wendy’s
Old Fashioned Hamburgers and Aunt Jemima. In this performance, we join the artists in
Wendy’s Brown Bag factory where the mismatch of material and immaterial labor, industrial
and post-industrial production, work and game, self and commodity plays out on the factory
floor. Disorientalism is collaboration between Asian-American artists Katherine Behar and
Marianne M. Kim, which studies the disorienting effects of technologized labor, junk culture
and consumerism. Through live performance, video and photographic projects, Disorientalism
explores how these forces mediate race, gender and bodies.Girls’ Health and Sexuality will be the topic of three presentations on Thursday, May
30. Experimental filmmaker and local artist artist Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez will conduct a
workshop on recontextualizing female sexuality in film. FIU professor of psychology Dr. Dionne
Stephens will conduct a workshop on culturally appropriate tools for educating ethnic minority
girls about sexually transmitted infections. Anya Wallace, MOCA director of Women on the
Rise!, will introduce an art-making project for young women about developing sexual identity
and significant life choices.
That evening, The Girls’ Club Collection (117 NE 2 Street, Ft. Lauderdale) will present
Ready Mix, an exhibition by artist collaborative Disorientalism, which investigates the
transformation of Aunt Jemima from “slave mammy” to “modern working mother”. The artists
will lead a tour of the exhibition, along with guest curator Jillian Hernandez, PhD, founder of
MOCA’s Women on the Rise! program, at 7 pm.
The final day of the Girls Summit, Friday, May 31, will be dedicated to Girls and Gender
Non-Conformity. Dana Edell, PhD, will direct a series of theater activities for girls exploring
ethnic stereotypes of boys and masculinity. Dr. Jillian Hernandez will introduce the work of
artist/activist Zanele Muholi who documents the lives of gender non-conforming women in South
Africa and discuss her dissertation research on masculine body presenting LBT young women
of color. Hernandez will moderate a panel discussion with participants of MOCA’s Women on
the Rise! program and a staff member from The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth on issues faced by
gender non-conforming young women and girls.
Annual Girls Summit is organized by Dr. Jillian Hernandez, founder of MOCA’s Women
on the Rise! program for at-risk teenage girls, who will join the faculty of the University of
California San Diego as Assistant Professor of Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies in
Fall 2013 and Anya Wallace, director of Women on the Rise!, and PhD candidate, Art Education
and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University. The 2
Annual Girls Summit is cosponsored by The Girls Club Foundation, The Women’s Fund of Miami Dade, The Miami
Foundation and the Aqua Foundation.
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Schedule
Wednesday, May 29 Topic: Food Justice
10 am – 3:30 pm
Sheri Davis-Faulkner, PhD “Critical Race Feminist Media Praxis”
Erin Healy, Youth L.E.A.D. “Food Justice”
Crystal Pearl, Artist “Food Body”
Lori Ross, Girl Scouts “It’s Your Planet – Love It!”
7:30 – 9 pm Performance: Disorientalism “Brown Bagging: Quality is
Our Recipe”
Thursday, May 30 Topic: Girls’ Health and Sexuality
10 am – 3:30 pm
Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez “Transforming the Cultural Perception of Female
Dr. Dionne Stephens “HPV 101: Tools for Professionals Working with
Anya Wallace “Pleasure (re)Collected”
Exhibition and Tour Disorientalism: Ready Mix
7:30 – 9 pm The Girls Club Collection
Sexuality”
Ethnic Minority Girls”
117 NE 2
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Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Friday, May 31 Topic: Girls and Gender Non-Conformity
10 am – 3:30 pm
Dana Edell, PhD “Playing the Player: Understanding Masculinity”
Jillian Hernandez, PhD “Fine as Hell: Young Women of Color Embodying and
Theorizing Masculinities”
7 – 9 pm Open exhibition of girls work and closing reception.
About MOCA’s Women on the Rise! program
The Women on the Rise! program addresses the needs of underserved girls and young women
through the study of contemporary women artists as positive role models with the intention of boosting
participants’ self-esteem, communication and social skills. Since its inception in 2004, WOTR! has served
over 1,200 girls ages 12-18 through agencies such as Girls Advocacy Project (GAP) at the Miami Dade
Juvenile Detention Center, Pridelines Youth Services, the Robert Renick Educational Center, Urgent, Inc.
and the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative Girls’ Group.
For more information contact Anya Wallace, MOCA Education Program Manager at awallace@mocanomi.org
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