Art on Purpose: Current and Past Projects

A project in partnership with Save Middle East Action Committee sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Location

Middle East Baltimore

Art

Art on Purpose Program Director Beth Barbush collects and composes audio stories and photographs from and about Middle East Baltimore residents and community leaders.  The photographs and words will be compiled as a book including an audio CD insert.

Purpose

By sharing residents’ experiences in Baltimore’s Middle East neighborhood as the community goes through a renewal process that includes massive dislocation and displacement for the residents, stories that otherwise would be lost are saved.

Sam Sawyer stands with Thomas Watkins(L) and Addie Ruffin(R) in front of the empty lot where the Sweet Prospect Church use to stand.