ADULT SHELTERS
 
Interfaith Works / Community Vision Day Center For The Homeless, Silver Spring

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We are happy to announce the Joseph and March Schultz Empowerment Fund,
to help several homeless artists buy supplies, take classes or frame work, each year.
Painter Andy Adje, from Senegal, received an Empowerment Fund endowment for 2010.

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Art For The People offers ongoing painting classes at this Day Center, with teachers Alice Sims and visiting teachers. To see more of this wonderful work, click here. Work by participants is often shown at the Kefa Cafe in downtown Silver Spring, or The Mayorga Coffee Factory.

A series of weekly art sessions have been funded by grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Participants enjoyed making paper dolls and small sculptures, painting, ceramics, printmaking, and other activities

 

 

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Alvin Thomas & Art For The People
on Maryland Public Television
(large download)

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ALVIN THOMAS, a participant in the Interfaith Works / Community Vision programs, was the recipient of the first two Art For The People scholarships from the Judith Graebner Educational Fund. Donors have included Community Ministries of Montgomery County and Congressman Albert Wynn. Mr. Thomas enrolled in two art classes at Montgomery College. Art for The People also organized a show and sale of Mr. Thomas’ work at the Kefa Café in downtown Silver Spring.
N STREET VILLLAGE - Washington DC, Shelter for Women

 

Artists Fritzie Seidler and Melinda Furch worked with residents making beads, paintings and panels, and decorating hats. The project was funded by Art For The People and grants from Syniverse Technologies/Jerry Easom, and the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.