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Open Works: Tools and Tech for the People

With wood and metal shops, 3-D printing, an electronics lab and textile studios, Open Works is a makerspace where Baltimore City residents can…

Giving Baltimore's Youth the Tools to Tell Their Stories

“Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so,” Moira Fratantuono ’10 (Community Arts M.F.A.)…

Emily Chow Bluck

Within two years of earning her M.F.A. in Community Arts from MICA, Emily Chow Bluck completed four artist residencies, launched several ongoing…
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Kristen Brown

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Kristen Brown
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2017
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Open Hearts

Edgar Reyes

Open Hearts

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Edgar Reyes
Date
2014
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Community Arts Leaders in Baltimore

Everyone has a story to tell, but not every community has access to the tools to do so.

Envision. Create. Transform.

In 2005, Baltimore was one of eight cities in the country included in the Ford Foundation’s Arts Integration and Education Reform Initiative…

Community Arts as a Way of Life

Epiphanies often happen during the most mundane of tasks. For Ashley Minner, that moment-when she was able to put a name to her life’s work-came…
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