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    Recent exhibit ‘Exploring Black Girlhood: Through the Artist’s Eyes’ shows off the artistry of Black girls — and the progress of a Chicago nonprofit

    by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune Aug 08, 2022 5 minutes
    People look at artwork about black girlhood at the School of the Art Institute LeRoy Neiman Center in Chicago on Friday, July 29, 2022. The art was created by girls in the Chicago- based nonprofit A Long Walk Home. EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo includes an image of an obscene gesture.

    CHICAGO -- Savannah Flowers’ imagery of herself shows the myriad emotions and growth that she’s made during her three years in A Long Walk Home’s Girl/Friends Leadership Institute. A black and white photo captures her working on the edges of her hair. Another colorful piece shows Flowers in a green dress crouched down amid green grass, at one point facing the viewer and another facing away from the camera, showing the viewer the marks on her back, the results of treatment after her 2020 diagnosis with stage three Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her last photo is another self portrait, that has her middle finger front and center for the viewer.

    Her work was displayed with dozens of other art pieces in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent exhibit “Exploring Black Girlhood: Through the Artist’s

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