Art with a Heart at Johnny's Pop-Up Market
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Come visit
Art with a Heart
at
Johnny's
Pop -Up Market every Sunday from 8am to 11am!! Come shop for yummy food, drinks and creative gifts, housewares and art kits for artists of all ages! Hope to see you there!
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Community Service and Public Art
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Racheal Wilson Memorialized in West Baltimore
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This mural and the mosaic steps serve as a memorial to fallen firefighter, Racheal Wilson, who died in the line of training in the house where these steps once led. The design was inspired by conversations with Racheal’s daughter, who told Art with a Heart that her Mom appeared to her in dreams talking with dolphins.
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She said her mom loved children and purple flowers. This mural was designed by the Art with a Heart team and intern, Dongyun Xu. Hundreds of community volunteers helped to complete this project. Art with a Heart was honored to design and facilitate this project and hopes that it will bring joy to all who pass by!
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Social Distanced Service Event
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In July, Art with a Heart hosted an innovative service night for 10
Impressionists
. While working outdoors and socially distanced, the group completed over 25 hubcaps for inclusion in a fifth grade legacy project for Chevy Chase Elementary School. Art with a Heart hopes to be able to offer more outdoor service opportunities in the coming months.
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Virtual Programs + HeART Boxes = Arts Learning
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In
July, Art with a Heart distributed another 500 HeART Boxes (for a total of 1,500 boxes) to Baltimore City students and held 138 virtual classes in collaboration with its summer partners. In addition to summer programs, Art with a Heart also re-introduced virtual classes with many of its community partners who had suspended programming in March. For every new and returning Art with a Heart program there was a delivery of abundant, individually packaged art supplies for participants to have a real and purposeful hands-on art experience. The projects below are from the
Child First Authority
classes at
Dr. Bernard Harris, Sr. Elementary School
and
Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School
. Students created mixed media collages inspired by the work of
Howardena Pindell
by using crayons and watercolor and then cutting shapes to create a final collage. The clay projects shown were inspired by artist
Simone Leigh’s
ceramic busts and are creative representations of women who the students admire!
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High school students in the
Centro SOL Summer Scholars
program enjoyed Art with a Heart virtual classes focused on exploring aspects of their identity. The project guided students to reflect on how they see themselves compared to how others might see them, and how that informs their relationships both personally and professionally. The portraits below show students’ reflections of what they have learned and love about themselves.
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Developing a Workforce of Graphic Designers
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This summer, Art with a Heart has virtually introduced a new marketable art curriculum exploring graphic design and digital fabrication. Using
open source software
and the elements and principles of design, students are learning how to manipulate and create modified images. Below are examples of photos students edited in a selective colorization exercise using
layer masking
.
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Student Inspired Word Art
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Youthworkers have been busy exploring their new found design skills and creating word art for Art with a Heart to use on apparel and products. Students selected words inspired by their Art with a Heart experience: creativity, inspire, self love, support, visionary, diverse, unity, joy, empower, hero and home. When asked, one of the participants shared, "home
because Art with a Heart is truly a second home for me. They treat you like family and truly care about you
."
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From Virtual to Reality in 3D
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Maker Foundations
participants in Art with a Heart's classes at
Enoch Pratt Free Library's
summer program just finished their 3D printing module and their prints are slowly but surely materializing! 3D models in
Tinkercad
became reality once printed in filament! From computer to real life - the future is here for Art with a Heart students!
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Leaders Continue to Serve
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Art of Leadership students continue to work on their Capstone Public Art Project for
The William S. Baer School
.
In addition to the public art project, Art of Leadership students have been volunteering their time on Thursdays to help the Art with a Heart team prepare materials for their programming and workforce development programs.
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Art with a Heart provides Baltimore's children, youth, and adults with 12,000 visual art classes a year in schools, community centers, group homes, shelters, permanent housing facilities, hospitals, and senior facilities. Since 2000, Art with a Heart has provided its students with access to creative, educational, and positive programming, caring and nurturing adults on a consistent basis, and the chance to embrace new ideas and skills in a safe and structured environment. In an effort to achieve its mission of enhancing the lives of people in need through visual art, Art with a Heart works to harness the benefits of arts education to cultivate positive changes in behavior and general attitudes among its participants. Art with a Heart is steadfast in its commitment to help nurture and grow its students and encourage them to become better communicators, problem solvers, and community members.
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3000 Falls Road | Mill No. 1 | Baltimore, MD 21211
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