"Jersey Shore" and "The Sopranos" have perpetuated a stereotype of the Italian woman: hot-blooded, gesticulating, food-obsessed and overly emotional. With her exhibition "365D," which comes to the Twin Cities after opening in Rome and Milan, Italian-born photographer Marzia Messina hopes to change those perceptions. Messina enlisted photographer Sham Hinchey to help portray an authentic vision of modern women of her home country, and the resulting show proffers a spectrum of the diversity and unique beauty of the Italian woman -- spanning age, socioeconomic status and ethnicity. -Jahna Peloquin
