Community Partner: Jubilee Arts
Peer Mentor: Kennedy McDaniel
Site Supervisor: Nora Howell
What is the Jubilee Arts?
Jubilee Arts is a community program providing arts classes to the residents of the
Sandown‐Winchester, Upton, and surrounding neighborhoods in Baltimore
Growing up in Baltimore, I was already familiar with many
of the institutional problems that the city faces. Because
this is my hometown, and I’ve benefitted from living here,
I feel that it is my personal responsibility to support my
community and do what I can to improve it. While I
volunteered in high school, I never felt like what I was
doing was enough to really make a difference. Being able
to participate in CIIP and work at Jubilee Arts has been an
incredible experience. This summer, I helped orchestrate
Art@Work: Sandtown, a mural project where eighty
youth who live in Sandtown worked together to create
eight different murals in their community. This project
taught me so much about the innate strength that
Baltimoreans have, and our innate ability to work
together, recover, and grow stronger. Sandtown was one
of the communities most affected by the Baltimore
Uprising, and seeing the youth come together to beautify
their community was truly inspiring. The resilience of the
youth I worked with not only made me proud to be a
Baltimorean, but reminded me that individuals have the
power to create change when we work together as a
community. ‐ Kennedy
Tasks:
• Helped plan,
coordinate and
supervise an
intensive summer
job program for
Baltimore youth
• Oversaw
completion of
timesheets and
paperwork for over
60 Youth Works
students
• Chaperoned field
trips to different
artistic spaces with
youth from the
Sandtown
neighborhood
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