Art with a Heart is a non-profit organization that provides interactive visual arts classes to underserved Baltimore area children, youth, and adults in schools, community centers, group homes, shelters, permanent housing facilities, hospitals, and senior facilities. Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art. In an effort to achieve its mission, Art with a Heart works to harness the benefits of arts education to cultivate positive changes in behavior and general attitudes among its participants.
4Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Artshttps://www.promotionandarts.orgbopacommunications@gmail.com(410) 752-8632
10 E Baltimore St
Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
Mezzo-soprano Christine Thomas-O'Meally has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass. Equally at home in opera, oratorio, cabaret, and musical theater, Ms. Thomas-O'Meally has performed with companies throughout the DC-Baltimore and Milwaukee-Chicago areas. An advocate for contemporary American music both as a performer and as a teacher, Ms. Thomas-O'Meally has created roles in five world premieres, including The Woman in Red in Dream of Valentino at Washington Opera.
Rey Velasquez Sagcal is a Filipino artist working primarily with video art, drawing, and painting. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration and is currently residing in Baltimore City.
McBrien is a Baltimore native who began her artistic career as a painter, exhibiting her work throughout the East Coast from the mid 80’s to mid 2000’s. As a painter, she showed her work in numerous group and one person shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic US region.McBrien began her fiber direction about a decade ago, feeling that pool painting was too toxic for what she wanted to communicate. She currently has her studio in a historic mill building in the Hampden area of Baltimore where they use to produce cotton duck canvas which has become one of McBrien’s main materials she uses.
An initiative under the Southwest Partnership to establish a community arts center, anchored by a dance operator, with youth and community programming and education provided by artist studio residents.
Cynthia Daignault received a BA in Art and Art History from Stanford University. She has presented solo exhibitions and projects at many major museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and White Columns. Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Daignault is a regularly published author, and editor of numerous publications.
Jamaal 'Black Root' Collier is an emcee, beatboxer, poet, master teaching artist actor, and host. With over 20 years of experience, he incorporates all aspects of his artistry in stage performances, residencies, and workshops. He has a charge to challenge his listeners to think carefully and critically. Affectionately & respectfully known as Mr. Root, Jamaal has a gift for making natural connections and truly listening to the needs of the students and the teachers with which he works. He cares deeply about people and helping them to achieve.
Founded in 1980, Black Cherry Puppet Theater has performed and presented puppetry-based activities to thousands across Maryland and the Mid Atlantic. The company is committed to the advancement of puppetry through collaborations with artists of other disciplines, presenting educational, as well as community-focused arts programming, and by sustaining a performance space that brings a very special theatrical experience to a growing and very diverse audience in “Baltimore’s coziest little theater.”
Kwame Shaka Opare is a classically trained West African dancer with an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland. At 14, he became a principal dancer with Kankouran West African Dance Company (Washington DC). As a young adult, Kwame Shaka moved to New York where he established himself as a dynamic instructor and choreographer. In the late 90s, he began touring with the Broadway show STOMP, in the lead role and as rehearsal director where he remained for 8 years.
Andrea Sherrill Evans (she/her) is an Arizona-born, Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work explores local ecosystems, seasonal cycles, and changing landscapes. As a means to interweave ideas and materiality, her drawings utilize handmade inks, charcoal, and paper created from flora foraged in her backyard and neighborhood, along trails and while traveling. Evans is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing, and the St.