In their distinctive blue T-shirts, the teen workers were conspicuous as they gathered each morning at Jubilee Arts before heading to sites that ranged from the Avenue Market to Etting Park to the Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School.
It’s not that hard,” he said during the first week, while instructing his group on drawing circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and ovals. Some of the young artists had never drawn or wielded a paint brush until they came under the tutelage of Thomas and the others. In addition to Massie, the artists – a mix of veterans from last summer and newcomers – were Julie Horton, Ignacio Marino Larrique, Megan Lewis, Gary Mullen, Iandry Randriamandroso, Ernest Shaw and Michael Thomas. Last summer, Art Work created murals and mosaics a bit to the west in Sandtown-Winchester. The five-week project, called Art Work: Upton, was a partnership between Jubilee Arts, a center for cultural activity since 2008, and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. Massie is an artist whose team of teenagers created mosaic house address signs and flower pots to spruce up the 1900 block of Division Street, a block over from The Avenue, as the historic thoroughfare is called. “Once again, we knocked it out the box,” said a proud Herb Massie. Pennsylvania Avenue between Jubilee Arts at 1947 and the Shake and Bake Family Fun Center at 1601 is a lot more vibrant, artistically speaking, thanks to the creative energy of about 80 teenagers whose summer job assignment was to paint murals and create mosaics in this part of West Baltimore. Teens in Art Work add murals and mosaics around The Avenue.
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