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…

Smiling children hold up a collaborative construction paper collage in their classroom. Their artwork depicts a fall day in a neighborhood, complete with neighbors, leaves, houses, and even a pumpkin.

Baltimore City to Welcome Dream Academy Charter School, operated by Arts for Learning Maryland

A new charter school is coming to Baltimore City. Arts for Learning Maryland, in partnership with Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School (TJEMS), will open Dream Academy Charter School for student enrollment in Fall 2026. The school will offer an arts-integrated learning…

A woman dressed in black and wearing a name tag smiles as she holds a hand-drawn poster that says, "Match My Joy." A smiley face emoji stands in place of the letter O in the word 'joy.'

Empowering Leaders, Engaging Learners: The 2024 Principal Fellowship

Fourteen school principals from four Maryland school districts recently united for the first time at Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures. The gathering served as a welcome to an esteemed professional development program for outstanding leaders in education: The Arts…

Students are dressed for warm weather in t-shirts and shorts. They are in a classroom, lined up on chairs, and drumming on overturned orange buckets.

A Peek into Summer at Arts for Learning Maryland

Summer is in full swing, bringing with it soaring temps, plenty of sun, and, for thousands of Maryland students, the arts. This month, students across the state are experiencing a variety of Arts for Learning Maryland’s arts-integrated summer programs that…

A selfie of Alexandra Miller, 2023 Bloomberg Arts Internship Social Media Manager. She has a bright smile and is wearing glasses and has an arm full of multi-colored beaded bracelets.

Bloomberg Arts Internship: A Homecoming

Every year, alumni of the Bloomberg Arts Internship–an Arts for Learning Maryland-managed program for rising seniors in Baltimore City Public Schools that connects young people with Baltimore’s arts and cultural organizations and supports their college and career readiness–step into roles…

Headshots of three community schools coordinators and one community schools manager framed in blue organic shapes. The four frames are set against a transparent white organic shape and green squiggle line layered over children's artwork–flowers and buildings cut from pastel construction paper. A title to the left of the framed headshots says "Community Schools."

All About Community: Arts for Learning Serving as a Community Schools Lead Agency

We know that schools are anchors of the community. They are where our children learn and play and where our neighbors gather for information, for friendship, and to participate in civic engagement. Community schools are similar neighborhood hubs, but differ…

Resilience

Statistics, English literature, ethics, chemistry, psychology, art history, dance, foreign language, chemistry, graphic design… the combination of coursework for students in their final year of high school runs the gamut. For some of last summer’s Bloomberg Arts Interns, it’s all…

A teacher sits next to a student on bench in a crowded cafeteria. Both are looking ahead and smiling.

Blacktastic Was Fantastic!

What a day! Thank you to everyone for joining us for Blacktastic, the Children’s Festival of Maryland Black History & Culture! For the third year in a row, attendees enjoyed six engaging, arts-infused workshops that celebrated and educated viewers about…

Students dancing in gymnasium

Summer with Arts for Learning Maryland – A Recap

Another A4L amazing summer is in the books… and on easels, and on stage, and in lyrics…! Over the last three months, 2,265 students engaged in Arts for Learning Maryland summer programs. They got creative, explored new art forms, enhanced…

The Bloomberg Arts Internship: A Perfect Match

“Do you know what a stage manager is? You might be a stage manager.” CJ Philip would know. The award-winning choreographer and artistic director of Dance and Bmore has spent more than enough time on, in front of, and behind…

18 Local Arts and Cultural Institutions to Host Bloomberg Arts Interns

If you live in Baltimore, you already know: our city’s incredible arts and cultural organizations bring joy, curiosity, and beauty to the area. They enrich life, inspire ideas – and directly support residents. A perfect example: The Bloomberg Arts Internship…

Celebrating Our Future, Historic Home – Odell’s in Station North

The scene: A Station North community centered around the arts, where Baltimoreans explore, dance, laugh, and learn. The site: Odell’s, the historic nightclub on North Avenue, which brought Baltimoreans together time and time again to share in the joy of…