Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art. With art as its vehicle, Art with a Heart provides Baltimore’s vulnerable children and youth with access to positive and productive programming, caring and nurturing adults on a consistent basis, and the chance to embrace new ideas and skills. Art with a Heart works to make participation in its programs a transformative experience, emphasizing for its participants that their new ideas and skills can be a foundation for creating change in their lives. 

In addition to more than 14,500 annual core programs, Art with a Heart offers the following complementary initiatives:
• HeARTworks - a workforce development program, uses art as a vehicle to teach job skills
• Art to Market - teaches job program participants and volunteers to create marketable art which is then displayed and sold to the public
• Apprenticeships - encourages qualified participants who have graduated from the job program to earn money while assisting in HeARTwares and targeted sites
• Arts Integration - provides engaging visual art programs to supplement academic curricula in elementary/middle schools
• HeARTwares - Art with a Heart's social enterprise/retail store
• Public Art Projects - often in the form of mosaic murals by community volunteers
• Community Service and Service Learning
• The Art of Leadership - introduces and/or reinforces leadership competencies to provide students the skills to help solve community problems and enhance their civic participation.


Social Impact

Art with a Heart

Randi Pupkin

Stephen Offutt

Monica McColm

Lindsey Atwell

Laura K. Miller

Kate McFaul

Freda Mohr

Emma Kaufmann

Diamond Jeffries

Cheryl Moulton

Chanit Roston

Catherine Mapp

Anusha Raichur

Alice Flaherty

Aine White

Valisha Whitfield

Maude Kasperzak

Ellen Miller

Alyssa Einhorn

Naomi Hafter

Jake Parchem

Sofie Benson

Bryan Dixon

Margaret Watson

Art Education Team

Teams at Art with a Heart

Art Education Team