834 W. 36th St. Baltimore, MD 21211    410.243.3834     info@artblocks.org

WHO WE ARE

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Vice President
Dr. Samuel Springer
Born in Barbados, Samuel holds an undergraduate degree from Trinity College of Music, London, a masters degree from Yale School of Music and a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He is the recipient of many awards, chief among these is the Hugh Giles Scholar Award from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music & the Arts. An active performer who has played concerts in Europe, the U.S. and the West Indies, Samuel is currently on the faculties of music at Morgan State University and the Peabody Prep. News.html
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Our MISSION is to provide communities with creative placemaking, a grassroots, bottom-up design tool used to identify their goals for their public spaces

Our VISION is to see the distinctive personality and creativity of communities of every size, shape and color reflected in their public spaces

 

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Deborah Patterson

A 2007 recipient of an Open Society Institute Community Fellowship, Deborah spent 12 years working with youth as a community artist in Pimlico/Park Heights, where ARTblocks originated as a means for bringing art out of the classroom and into the community for all to participate.  Her formal training in the grassroots process of placemaking (with Project for Public Spaces in NY) provides ARTblocks with the means for helping communities create a comprehensive plan for their public spaces that is uniquely their own.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Samuel Springer, Vice President

A noted musician, Samuel is Professor of Music at Morgan State University


Eric Pripstein, CPA, Treasurer

Devoted to arts in education, Eric is a founding partner of the firm, Coale, Pripstein & Associates


Senator Bill Ferguson

Maryland State Senator


Caprece Jackson-Garrett

Principal, Bonneau Caprece LLC: Strategic Marketing, Event Management and Public Relations


Deanna Nikaido

Poet and Graphic Designer for “Book in a Day”


Dr. Garry Jennings

Anesthesiologist & Owner of Toscana Medispa in Little Italy


Janet Felsten

OSI Fellow and Executive Director, Baltimore Green Map


Meg Fairfax Fielding
Director of Development, Woodbourne Charitable Trust


Pat Cruz

Education Director, Young Audiences Arts for Learning of Maryland


COLLABORATORS & SUPPORTERS




Our colleagues & counterpart in Derby, England

Mary and David Hawkins Fund

Our colleagues & counterpart in Derby, England