Art with a Heart Community Art Workshops: Birdhouses! (January)

Community art is a collaborative creative process wherein multiple people’s artistic expression works toward a common goal. This workshop will guide participants through the process of embellishing birdhouses to be installed along the fence in Third Space’s outdoor living room area. No art experience is required!

Just like many hands will touch and change each birdhouse along its journey, shifting larger societal values and beliefs takes the effort of many different people. Creating a birdhouse is the act of intentionally building a safe space for birds to start new life. Birds universally symbolize freedom and peace. As participants create their birdhouses, they should consider which colors and symbols you can use to represent what does a safe community, rich with cultural diversity, looks like. Each community art workshop will last two hours. Everyone is welcome!

Art with a Heart 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. In addition to its core programming, Art with a Heart offers a complement of other initiatives including service learning (both in the office and at HeARTwares, Art with a Heart’s social enterprise/retail store), a job program, a leadership program and significant community service/public art efforts. Art with a Heart has extensive experience working with diverse populations and has facilitated over 300 public art projects In Baltimore and beyond.