Loring Cornish to be Featured Artist in Fundraiser for Pennsylvania Avenue Arts Program

Nov. 14, 2012 - PRLog -- Loring Cornish to be featured artist in fundraiser

for Pennsylvania Avenue arts program

Event to raise support for Jubilee Arts and its work of reviving historic Pennsylvania Avenue with affordable art classes and cultural opportunities

BALTIMORE (November 13, 2012) – Pennsylvania Avenue, once the hub of African-American arts and entertainment in Baltimore, has been struggling for decades to combat the ills of poverty, drugs and violence. Since 2008, Jubilee Arts has been working to regain the former glory of this historic corridor by providing art classes, leading public art projects and offering other cultural experiences to community residents.

On Thursday, November 15 from 6-9pm, Jubilee Arts will hold its 3rd Annual Art Fundraiser, at the Fells Point gallery of acclaimed artist Loring Cornish.  Guests will be able to meet Cornish, a visionary “outsider” artist whose work focuses on mosaics with palettes ranging from small wall hangings to entire houses inside and out.

Proceeds from the event will support the operation of Jubilee Arts at 1947 Pennsylvania Avenue whose arts classes and cultural opportunities serve as alternatives to drugs and violence in the Sandtown-Winchester and Upton.  The program offers year-round classes and programming for people ages 6 and older in these underserved communities.

Jubilee Arts is a program of Newborn Holistic Ministries, a community-based nonprofit founded in 1996 with a mission to preserve and enrich life in the community by providing services that enable residents to meet their material, social, and spiritual needs. Jubilee Arts, in partnership with Baltimore Clayworks and the Maryland Institute College of Art, offers affordable quality classes to people of all ages in ceramics, visual arts, creative writing and dance and provides opportunities for local artists to teach and showcase their work in Jubilee’s exhibit and performance spaces.

For more about Jubilee Arts visit jubileeartsbaltimore.org.