By: Lauren Cook BALTIMORE — Art with a Heart is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a landmark gift to Baltimore City. It is currently constructing an eight by six foot heart sculpture that will be installed in downtown Baltimore this summer. Due to the pandemic, more than 1,000 volunteers are creating
The Local Wander's Nina Galvez has released a full episode featuring her interview with Art with a Heart's Founder and Executive Director, Randi Pupkin. In it, they discuss the importance of art in developing creative thinkers who will ultimately inherit and address our world's problems, why art and Baltimore go
The IW GSBI Online Accelerator program is a strategic partnership between Innovation Works and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. This six-month accelerator delves deep into eight core social enterprise business modules with the goal to help social enterprise leaders in the Baltimore metro area hone in on key aspects of their business and develop a solid growth
Art with a Heart's large mixed-media mosaic sculpture was featured this past Sunday in the Baltimore Sun. The sculpture is Art with a Heart's 20th anniversary gift to the City of Baltimore and will be installed downtown on Pratt Street between Charles and Hanover Streets this summer.
A year ago, The Abell Foundation staff held the first of several art sessions in the Art with a Heart office to launch this mosaic project for their office space. The Art with a Heart team and their MICA intern, Dongyan Xu, were tasked with creating a design that depicted a diverse and bustling Baltimore neighborhood and that pays
In advance of its segment on Art with a Heart, The Local Wanderer has released a video highlighting our Art of Leadership program featuring a recent graduate's testimony of her experience as a part of Cohort 6. Applications are now open for the next cohort!
By Thompson Toyota Art is such an integral part of everyone's life. From the TV shows we watch to chalk on the sidewalks and art on the side of buildings, art should be something everyone can do if they want to, regardless of economic status. Art with a Heart agrees and allows people to
Dear Friends: As 2020 comes to a close, I can not thank you enough for your kind support of Art with a Heart. It is hard to believe that as we commenced our 20th year of programming, Art with a Heart was only “full throttle” for 10 weeks -- 10 weeks!! And by “full
As Megan Fortman, Art with a Heart’s Program Director said, "This year has been our test AND our testimony!! For those dedicated to the work as we are, the test is to never stop seeking out creative solutions to make a difference in
By Katie Beecher For 20 years, Art with a Heart has been a principal cornerstone for community art engagement in the Baltimore area. Prior to March, they were slated to have their best programming year since they opened, with 500 visual art classes in 23 zip codes and 12,000 unique art experiences being held every month.
