A Year in Review Programming Community Service Public Art HeARTwares Baltimore LED Portrait Project

A Winter Wonderland The Walters' Sensory Morning Shining Light on After-School Programs December's Service Groups HeARTwares' Celebrates its Fourth Anniversary February Heart Mosaic Workshop

• Art with a Heart welcomed many new partners, including 14 schools, five recreational centers, three community centers, two treatment centers, and two shelters. With close to 70 community partners in 2014, Art with a Heart provided over 100,000 unique art experiences to children, youth, and adults in Baltimore.
   
• In June, Art with a Heart celebrated the ninth year of its Summer Job Program, a meaningful program that teaches youth important soft job skills while creating marketable works of art. In evaluating the success of the Program, we consider the feedback of our participants. One student said, "This program always ends up changing my life in multiple ways. The people here are amazing. Thank you so much for allowing me to stay in this program - I felt as though it was a privilege to be here."

Art with a Heart enjoyed working with its talented students at nearly 70 sites, including: 1) Lakeland Elementary/Middle School; 2) Baltimore Autism Society; 3) James Mosher Elementary School; 4) Rose Street Summer Job Program; 5) Creative Kids Baltimore; and 6) Grove Park Elementary/Middle School.

• In 2014, Art with a Heart began new service partnerships with scholars from Bridge EdU, residents of Challengers Independent Living - Bert's Place, and students from Thread (formally Incentive Mentoring Program), bringing Art with a Heart's service-learning partnerships to 10, including: Academy for College and Career Exploration, Career Academy, The Choice Program, City Neighbors High School, Jemicy School, The Park School of Baltimore, and St. Elizabeth School. 

Volunteer groups and service partnerships from 2014 include: 1) Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; 2) Hot August Music Festival workshop; 3) Repair the World's Summer is Coming event; 4) Eli Lilly; 5) Gallagher Services and Academy for College and Career Exploration collaboration; 6) Towson University Project Serve; and 7) Heart HeART Helpers with Goochland Baptist Church members.

• With the help and support of the community, Art with a Heart completed six mosaic murals, one painted mural, and four large-scale public art installations.
   
• Throughout the year, the "Ashkemore" tree was on traveling exhibition at Baltimore Penn Station, Enoch Pratt Free Library, The Associated, and the Owings Mills and Park Heights JCC. In March 2014, the Art with a Heart team traveled to Ashkelon, Israel to complete the second Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership tree engaging 250 community volunteers. Ashkelon's tree is on permanent exhibit in its municipal library. The Baltimore tree is now on permanent exhibit at the Southeast Anchor Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Public art projects in 2014 included: 1) Henderson-Hopkins mosaic, 10'x6'; 2) Bench beautification project, in collaboration with BGE, at Boys & Girls Club of Harford County; 3) Stepping stones at Govans Elementary School; 4) Garden posts at Barclay-Greenmount; 5) "Ashkemore" tree in Askelon, Israel; 6) "Ashkemore" tree in Baltimore, Maryland; 7) Van Gogh inspired mural, by Art with a Heart teacher Edward Williams, in collaboration with BGE, at Boys & Girls Club of Harford County; "Wall of Values" installation at Woodhome Elementary/Middle School; and Weinberg Village mosaic, 5'x3'.

Thank You!

 

Thank you for helping to make 2014 a tremendously successful year for Art with a Heart. We appreciate your ongoing support to provide continued momentum to our mission: to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art.
 

In December, Art with a Heart joined several other community organizations at The Walters Art Museum for an event designed specifically for children with Sensory Processing Disorders. Art with a Heart worked with children of all ages, and their parents, to decorate a large recycling bin using repurposed anesthesia lids. Once complete, this recycling bin will be donated to Art with a Heart's service-learning partner, St. Elizabeth School.

Children at The Walters Art Museum's Sensory Morning event use repurposed anesthesia lids to create a recycling bin for St. Elizabeth School. Thank you to Dr. John Flaks and the staff at Medstar Harbor Hospital for collecting and donating the lids!

In collaboration with Maryland Out of School Time Network and Lights On Afterschool, Art with a Heart worked with nearly 100 students at Arundel Elementary/Middle School to create lamps depicting their favorite after-school activities. The lamps will be given to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Governor Martin O'Malley, Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, Senator Bill Ferguson, Delegate Brooke Lierman, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, Gregory Thornton, Superintendent Lillian Lowery, and Executive Director of the Governor's Office for Children, Anne Sheridan. The lamps will "shine light" on the importance of quality and educational after-school programs.