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 10 years.

Forty girls at Jefferson Middle School in Indio 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 then be combined by Palm Springs artist Gideon Cohen 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.

Cohen painted the words “Me in 2020” on a 3-by-5 canvas and separated the painting into 150 pieces, which he handed to each of the girls. The painting Cohen compiles from the various pieces will be unveiled in May.

“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 in 10 years.

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