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He had attached a gro  \ncery cart to the back of his bike and was banging it  \nagainst parked cars as he rode up and down an alley in  \nEast Baltimore one summer afternoon. As soon as she saw him, RandiPupkin recalls thinking to herself,“That kid needs something to do.”  \nPupkin came across the youth six years ago during one of her many trips to Rose Street Community Center, a grass-roots organization that runs a homeless shelter and provides children and teens with engaging activities in a part of the city where positive outlets are few. The center is in a row house sandwiched between other row houses, many with boarded up windows and sagging stoops and roofs, in a neighborhood known for high poverty and crime. When she spotted the youth on the bike, she figured the community center didn’t appeal to him, and he had chosen vandalism to escape boredom. She remembered that at his age she had worked as a summer camp counselor. As she watched him dent car after car, she realized he needed a job, and so his frustration became her inspiration.  \nPupkin was visiting Rose Street as part of her work with Art with a Heart, a nonprofit she founded 10 years ago to provide art classes to low-income youth and adults, homeless people, the disabled, and battered women and their children. Thanks to that mischie-  \nJennifer Dubin is the assistant editor of American Educator. Previously, she was a journalist with the Chronicle of Higher Education.  \nstudents in Art with a heart’s summer Job Program sell their waresat Artscape, a summer arts festival in Baltimore. youth 13 and older receive a daily stipend of $10 to create marketable art.  \nvous youth on the bike, the organization now also runs an artfocused Summer Job Program for youth 13 and older.  \nEach summer, Art with a Heart hires about 40 young people to make marketable art—tables and chairs, jewelry, and lamps, among other pieces—which they then sell at Artscape, an annual summer arts festival in Baltimore. Professional artists or people with art backgrounds teach the classes, in which students are employed for four weeks creating and perfecting their wares. Par-  \n18 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | FALL 2010  \nticipants earn a stipend of $10 a day and receive breakfast and lunch. Many are from low-income families, others are homeless, and some have dropped out of school. They find out about the program through community centers, like Rose Street, or their schools. The program does not require that students have art experience or any kind of artistic skill toland a job. They need only an interest in working hard, showing up on time, and  \nlearning something new.  \nThough teachers will cultivate talent when they see it, the purpose of the program is not to discover the next Pablo Picasso or Romare Bearden. Art with a Heart instead uses art as a vehicle to teach job skills to students, many of whom have never filled out a job application an interviewer in the eye. The  \nalso allows teens to express them  \nselves through visual art, an opportunity they may not get during the school year. With the increasing focus on improving reading and math achievement,* many students nationwide—not just in Baltimore—no longer have the  \nchance to draw, paint, or sculpt   \nThe economic downturn ha   \nalso made the arts even less of   \npriority. Budget cuts have forc d  \ndistricts to scrap art classes  \nmany other extracurricular activities that keep students engaged school. In Baltimore, Art with Heart’s Summer Job Program pro  \nvides the enrichment—not to mention the paycheck—that most youth here desperately need.  \n“Consistency Is Coveted”  \nA Baltimore native, Randi Pupkin had practiced law for 14 years in her hometown when she realized she no longer enjoyed her work. She mostly argued with other lawyers in the contentious field of construction litigation.","cbCaicJ1ODDQZI5b","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicJ1ODDQZI5b","pdf",536956,"English","# An Artful Summer\n## The community and the youth\n## The Summer Job Program model\n## Why art is used as job training\n## Economic pressure and arts funding","[{\"question\":\"What is Art with a Heart’s Summer Job Program designed to achieve?\",\"answer\":\"It uses visual art as a vehicle to teach job skills, reinforce responsibility, and give youth a structured path to employment and learning.\"},{\"question\":\"How do participants earn support and complete the program?\",\"answer\":\"Participants work for four weeks, earning a $10 daily stipend and receiving breakfast and lunch while creating and refining marketable art.\"},{\"question\":\"Where do students sell the art they create through the program?\",\"answer\":\"They sell their wares at Artscape, an annual summer arts festival in Baltimore.\"}]","An Artful Summer - A Job Program Inspires Creativity and Teaches Responsibility | PDF"]