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This
article appeared February 10 on the Decorah News web site: http://www.decorahnews.com/210teenagers.htm Art display
looks at lives of teenaged girls Is it
tough to be a teenaged girl? An art exhibit in the mezzanine of the
Decorah Public Library is looking at that issue.
Gentry
says she was surprised by how intelligent and resilient the girls she
talked to were. Many of the girls were strangers to her, but they
opened up and talked about their lives and their faiths. She says the
art project was a great way to explore the issues that face adolescent
girls in
our society.
Gentry
says her exhibit will move to Luther College after spending the month
of February at the library. She hopes to eventually have 20 life-sized
figures in the display--and says she wants to turn the project into a
traveling exhibit that tours the country. Anyone interested in the
project
can contact Gentry at lauragentry |
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Look and Listen... to the
girls' words. That's what Laura Gentry did as she created wooden
cutouts of actual adolescent girls, a dozen of which will be exhibited
in March and April at the Center for the Arts at Luther College,
Decorah, Iowa. An artist and pastor of Waterville, Waterville, and Our
Savior, Lansing, Lutheran churches in Iowa, Gentry painted each girl's
portrait on one side of the cutout and grouped her words in a collage
on the other side. "I wanted to give the girls as big a voice as
possible," says Gentry, who
considers the project an extension of her ministry. "They need to be
heard."
For information on hosting the exhibit, "Seen But Rarely Heard: Voices
of Adolescent Girls," e-mail: lauragentry@lycos.com
or call (563)
538-4664. |
Reverend Laura Gentry has interviewed
20 teenaged girls about their lives and has placed their statements on
the backs of full-sized portraits of the girls. Her exhibit opened to
the public on Sunday.