Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance
$10,000 / 2004 / Arts
Two grants for general support and development of arts education tool kits designed to integrate the arts into the curricula of Maryland public schools.
Baltimore Clayworks
$35,000 / 2004 / Arts
For planning and marketing of the 2005 Tour de Clay, a six-week exhibit of 878 regional, national, and international ceramic artists in more than 99 venues located in Baltimore City and around Maryland. This visual arts event, now one of the largest in the country, was planned to coincide with the 39th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference and the annual American Craft Council show.
Creative Alliance
$100,000 / 2004 / Arts
A challenge grant to retire the loan for major capital renovations of the Patterson Theater in Highlandtown. The cultural center houses exhibition and performing space for more than 350 art, film/video, music, dance, and poetry events, and offers residential studios for eight artists. The theater’s presence as a gateway to Highlandtown is expected to prove a catalyst for the continuing revitalization of the neighborhoods.
Access Art, Inc.
$25,000 / 2002 / Arts
Two grants toward the renovation of a vacated branch library building to house an art gallery, studio, photography laboratory and graphic computer center for after-school art programs to serve at-risk youth in the Pigtown and Morrell Park neighborhoods. This initiative has been designed to deter anti-social behavior of disengaged youth.
Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts
$5,000 / 2002 / Arts
In support of the 2002 Baltimore Book Festival.