Art on Purpose: Gallery

Gallery

2002 Clipper Park Road, Fourth Floor
Baltimore, MD
21211

410/243-4750
Peter Bruun
Artist Director
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Project: Second Chances

Baltimore Freedom Academy students proudly display certificates honoring the completion of their year-long art workshop and leadership program.

Baltimore Freedom Academy students proudly display certificates honoring the completion of their year-long art workshop and leadership program.

Remington Youth / Community Radio in Fall 2009

Detail of one of dozens of maps created during workshops in 23 Baltimore neighborhoods.

Detail of community-made map from Oakenshawe, one of the many artistic maps created in Baltimore City neighborhoods.

A Baltimore Freedom Academy student works with a Crossroads School student on his project for the exhibition.

Park School student work on view in Davison Lobby Gallery as part of the exhibition.

Baltimore Freedom Academy student exhibiting her art in

Drawings from Sri Lanka form the basis of a series of exhibitions on finding beauty in the face of trying circumstances.

Watercolors by Peter Bruun invoke the notion of the importance of second chances. Paintings by Baltimore Freedom Academy & Crossroads School students visible in background.

Over 200 people from across Baltimore attend the opening reception for the exhibit at the Eubie Blake Center.

Baltimore Freedom Academy students proudly display certificates honoring the completion of their year-long art workshop and leadership program.

Art on Purpose has an ongoing partnership with Baltimore County Department of Aging, providing workshops from time to time to create art for exhibitions.

A photograph from the series

Painting by Baltimore County adult senior reminiscing on childhood.

Over 200 photographs by more than 120 Baltimore residents from 10 Baltimore neighborhoods make up part of the exhibition at the Eubie Blake Center.

Residents of Harlem Park used this image to advocate for getting the fountain in LaFayette Square turned back on.

A major advocacy event on behalf of neighborhoods takes place in the gallery.

Waverly residents took pictures of their neighborhood during a workshop and selected this to be one of two turned into postcards. Ten neighborhoods took part in the project.

Painting by Baltimore Freedom Academy student reveals how much she has learned to do with color using only blue, red, yellow, white, and black.

Performance of ten short requiem pieces by percussionist Tom Goldstein, the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, and Friends takes place in the gallery as one of three remembrance events.

A memorial work by Baltimore Freedom Academy student, one of dozens of pieces that honor departed loved ones as part of

Participants in three remembrance events as part of

One part of the exhibition featured work based on symmetry. From left to right: Park School fifth grade symmetrical prints, Kindergarten block constructions, and a wall-mounted piece by Liz Ensz along with samples of Turkish carpets.

Peggy Diggs visits Park School and has lunch with students and faculty.

Artist Zoe Charlton creates a piece entitled

A seventh grader attending the Crossroads School's T-CAP Extended Day Program at Living Classrooms made this painting about a second chance at learning kick-boxing during an Art on Purpose workshop.

View of Allyn Massey's installation

Detail of

View of the