Virginia celebrates Minds Wide Open Women in the Arts in 2010.  Arts programs with a theme of Women in the Arts will be presented between March and June 2010.  Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory will join in the celebration by reaching out to artists and organizations to help make MINDS WIDE OPEN a recurring celebration of the arts across Virginia for many years to come.

Lange’s organization will present a program on Women’s Body Image & Self-Esteem through art journaling & visual diaries.  Art journals and visual diaries are excellent pathways to explore women’s issues of body image & self-esteem.  The program will seek to further understand and explore media concepts of women’s appearance through writing and artwork in one’s own visual and language voice of choice.

Details will be forthcoming.  E-mail registration to shaunaleelange@gmail.com from those in the metropolitan DC area (the event will be held in metro-accessible Alexandria, Virginia) is required as space is limited.  Participants should plan to bring their own journaling supplies as well as magazines clips and photos that speak to the issues of body image and self-esteem in the media.  More on this effort as the project approaches. 

MINDS WIDE OPEN is sponsored by many fine corporate entities to include:  Altria; Dominion; Norfolk Southern; and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.