As part of a new art project that began Tuesday, 150 teenage girls are creating sketches of what they hope their lives will look like in a little more than 10 years.

Forty girls at Jefferson Middle School drew their dreams on pieces of canvas. Some hope to become dentists, models, lawyers and mothers pushing strollers. One girl sketched out a doctor's stethoscope.

The “Me in 2020” art program is organized by the Ophelia Project, a young women's mentoring program. The girls will paint their dreams and goals on 4-inch canvases during three workshops over six months at Indio and Jefferson middle schools and Indio High School.

The 150 canvases will be combined into a painting called “Me in 2020,” which will be unveiled during The Ophelia Project's annual scholarship luncheon in May.

“Me in 2020” is the first art awareness project for the Ophelia Project, which is a program affiliated with the Palm Desert-based Healthy Family Foundation.

“We want to encourage their creativity, and art is a form of learning for them,” said Judy Kaye-Cressman, development director of the foundation.

Palm Springs artist Gideon Cohen, who has volunteered to help with the project, painted the words “Me in 2020” on a 3-foot by 5-foot canvas and separated the painting into 150 pieces, which he handed to each of the girls. At the end of the project, he will re-combine the pieces into one painting for the May unveiling.

“The main challenge is that you have to put your dream within boundaries to fit with everything else and within society,” Cohen said.

On her piece of canvas, 13-year-old Evelyn Castro sketched out planets, stars, a telescope and musical notes on Tuesday. She wants to be a musician and an astronomer.

“It would be an interesting career,” she said about the latter. “I like looking up at the stars and the planets.”