As Spring transforms our city, you can be transformed by the power of art! Even in the midst of a pandemic, Creative Alliance has forged ahead to celebrate diverse communities, inspire future artists, and support creative expression in Baltimore!
Please consider helping us reach our spring fundraising goal of $30,000. Your gift will support our hardworking staff, essential operations as we prepare to reopen, and our ongoing innovative programs.
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Creative Alliance staff came together in mid-March of 2020 and created a program to ensure that performance happened, and happened safely, in an environment where live performance seemed impossible. By the time the final Sidewalk Serenades note rung out, the program had placed 412 concerts on all corners of Baltimore and put over $65,000 back into the hand of the artists. This program created some real Baltimore magic thanks to you, the Baltimore community. The Serenades became a model for safe, equitable arts engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities all over the world were envious of how Baltimore came together to support its working performers. We know...because they called! And we shared how to start the program for themselves.
Now in March of 2021, exactly a full year after our first heart-wrenching show cancellation of many, we bring back the Sidewalk Serenades. An inspirational step in a hopeful direction for performers (and all of us) in Baltimore. With this new year of Serenades, we hope to create a Baltimore tradition, where the soul-stirring sounds of live music continue on street corners, front stoops, community parks, driveways, and sidewalks, and every pocket of the city, lifting spirits and bringing us together.
Streamed LIVE from the Creative Alliance Theater, with incredibly high definition video and audio, Virtual Front Row is a ticketed performance series designed to provide as optimal a viewing experience as possible. Remember drums? Remember bass? This is a FULL band show mixed with your listening in mind. Crank the subs on that screen! These are the best seats on the internet, we promise.
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This summer Teen Council we will explore ARTivism as it pertains to us personally and in our community. The youth will then use their talents of visual and performing arts to collaboratively devise their own virtual ARTivism performance.
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The podcasts we created were to shed a light on the Baltimore Art scene and to highlight art inspired by black people for black people.
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We are thrilled to announce that Creative Alliance is the recipient of a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts to fund our Artesanas Apprenticeship program for 2021!
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After nine years of service furthering the Creative Alliance’s mission, Gina Caruso has resigned as the organization’s Executive Director to pursue other opportunities.
The Creative Alliance has been fortunate to have Gina at the helm during an important period in our history—the transition from the leadership of our esteemed founder Margaret Footner; the programmatic planning and successful fundraising for our expanded space, the Creativity Center; and the more recent challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gina has been integral to the Creative Alliance’s many successes during her tenure and leaves the organization on firm ground both artistically and financially.
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The application process for the Creative Alliance Residency Program is now open and will conclude on FRIDAY MARCH 19, 2021. Creative Alliance is accepting applications for its live/work studio Residency Program beginning in Summer 2021. This long-term program, founded in 2003, is open to artists of all media who would like to deepen their practice in a supportive, dynamic environment, and interact with colleagues who thrive in a lively cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary live/work environment.
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As 2020 comes to a close and we reflect on Creative Alliance’s 25th anniversary, we are certain of one thing: our gratitude for your enduring support.
For two and half decades, the generous contributions and gifts from our members have helped us to bring Baltimore residents, families, and children an abundance of high quality free arts programs.
You have also helped us to re-ignite Highlandtown, strengthen our community through partnerships with other non-profits, and offered us the extra assistance we need each year to bring outstanding enrichment programs to Baltimore children who attend schools that don’t have funding for the arts.
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The holidays will look a bit different this year. But, we can still send some love and joy to our family and friends! We've compiled some of our favorite ways to share creativity and joy this holiday season. There's even a few ways to spend time together! The best news, is that you're supporting the arts in Baltimore at the same time.
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