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• Art with a Heart's Summer Job Program celebrated its eighth year of providing at-risk youth with a safe place to be each day, opportunities for experiencing consistent relationships with peers and adults, the opportunity to develop much needed job skills, and the ability to cultivate positive life skills and character traits. Each day of the Program, students work to create marketable art, which is then displayed and sold in HeARTwares. Through Art with a Heart's community commitment, in the last year, nearly $11,000 has been paid to Art with a Heart's community partners and artists from HeARTwares art sales. 

Community Service and Public Art

• Art with a Heart engaged over 2,000 volunteers in the past year. This extraordinary support includes: 
• 30 interns and service-learning students,
• 70 HeART Helpers from over 30 middle and high schools, and
• Hundreds of volunteers from over 60 community groups.   

• In 2013, Art with a Heart began new service partnership with The Diversity and Academic Advancement Summer Institute, a program of the Incentive Mentoring Program, which joins Art with a Heart's long-term service-learning partners: Bridges, The Choice Program, City Neighbors High School, Career Academy, The Mayor's Office of Employment Development, Academy of College and Career Exploration, and St. Elizabeth School.

In 2013, Art with a Heart engaged thousands of volunteers through numerous interactive workshops, community events, and service projects. A: Power in Dirt community garden sign-making event, B: Baltimore Library Project mosaic workshop, C: Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership 10th Anniversary project, D: artSPEAKS! workshop, and E: Bloomsburg University Living and Learning Communities service day.

• Many community-service projects, planned and facilitated by Art with a Heart, engaged an Art with a Heart community partner for the benefit of another community partner.

A: Participants at a Gathering created hearts to donate to Edgecombe Circle Elementary/Middle School and to the Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center. B: Participants in the University of Maryland Baltimore County's 7th Annual Arts Integration Conference created an awe-inspiring mixed media sculpture using found objects and recycled materials that is now on display at Glenmount Elementary/Middle School. C: Students in a McDonogh School Leadership group designed and painted tire planters that add life and color to Liberty Elementary School. D: Participants at the Opening the Gates celebration at Gwynn Oak Park created expression tags that were assembled into a wall hanging for residents of Woodlawn Senior Center.

• With its ongoing public art efforts, Art with a Heart involved hundreds of community members in eight mosaic murals that now beautify schools, community centers, hospitals, and other local non-profits. In addition, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership, Art with a Heart, along with hundreds of volunteers, created a one-of-a-kind tree sculpture that is currently on traveling exhibit throughout Baltimore. In the coming months, Art with a Heart will also facilitate the completion of a similar tree in Ashkelon, Israel. 

A: Maryland Family Network (7'x4'), B: Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership, C: S.T.E.A.M. at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (10'x3'), D: University of Maryland Children's Hospital (10'x9'), and E: Moveable Feast (7.5'x3').

All of us at Art with a Heart thank our numerous supporters, friends, students, volunteers, programming partners, and community-service collaborators who have made 2013 a tremendously successful year for Art with a Heart. 

With art as its vehicle, Art with a Heart continues to grow, nurture, and inspire its students to become better thinkers, communicators, problem solvers, and community members. Please help Art with a Heart remain a consistent presence in the lives of these individuals by making a generous gift to Art with a Heart. We depend on your support to provide continued momentum to our mission: to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art.

We are thrilled to welcome Richard Montgomery to Art with a Heart's Board of Directors. In addition to being the Director of Legislative and Governmental Relations at Maryland State Bar Association, Mr. Montgomery is also a talented photographer and sports enthusiast!

While we are delighted to have Mr. Montgomery's presence and expertise on the Board, we must bid a sad farewell to Seth Dunbar, who is transitioning off the Art with a Heart Board after four years of service. During his service, Mr. Dunbar acted as Board President for two years. Thank you Seth for your sense of humor, spirit, hard work, and ongoing passion for Art with a Heart's work. We will miss you!

Painted Stone Hangings

Residents from Gallagher Services and Art with a Heart service-learning students collaborated to create Painted Stone Hangings, good for indoor or outdoor display, with varying sizes between 33"-36". Connect two or more to create a rain chain!

Found Object Flower Pots

Using recycled and found objects, students from

and Art with a Heart volunteers constructed these flower pots that are not only practical, but also beautiful and unique.