Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott stands with Arts for Learning President and CEO Stacie Sanders Evans and three high-school students. All are smiling into the camera as the students brace a pair of giant golden scissors to cut a thick red ribbon and golden bow stretched out in front of them.

A New Classroom to Host an Expanded Cohort: The Bloomberg Arts Internship Welcomes 50 Students

Recently, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott joined students and staff in the newly completed classroom space at Arts for Learning Maryland headquarters to celebrate participants in the Bloomberg Arts Internship (BAI)–a program providing public high school students with paid internships at area arts and cultural institutions as well as professional career and college mentorship.

Mayor Scott spoke proudly of the value that BAI and similar programs, like Youthworks, contribute to the City, creating meaningful employment and learning opportunities for our young people. He joked that arts internships certainly beat his own summer employment as a teen, working in the Baltimore heat for his family’s roofing company.

The new classroom space–made possible through capital support from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Abell Foundation, and France-Merrick Foundation–will host BAI this summer, as well as professional development workshops for teachers and artists throughout the year. 2025 marks the ninth year of the Bloomberg Arts Internship in Baltimore. This summer, 50 interns will be supporting arts and cultural organizations with projects ranging from marketing and community outreach, creating gallery installations, education for community programs, tackling documentation and archiving initiatives, creating props and designing sets for theatre productions, and so much more.

This year’s Bloomberg Arts Internship worksites include: AREA 405, Art with a Heart, Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS), Arts Every Day, ArtsCentric, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation, Baltimore Center Stage, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore Filmmakers Collective, Baltimore Improv Group, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Rock Opera Society, Blue Light Junction, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Creative Alliance, Empact Art, Everyman Theatre, Johns Hopkins University Museums, Living Classrooms Ascend through Music, Maryland Art Place, Maryland Center for History & Culture, Media Rhythm Institute, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Peabody Preparatory, Port Discovery, Root Branch Media, Strand Theatre, Valerie J. Maynard Foundation, Walters Art Museum, WombWork Productions, and Yele LLC.

Follow BAI on Instagram to get a peek into the program, the work, and the experiences interns are engaged in this summer.