The Business Album

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To reach aspiring young artists and to expand its programs, the Baltimore School for the Arts launched ACT II, a three-year, two-phased, multimillion-dollar expansion and renovation of both its current facility, 712 Cathedral St., and the adjacent 704 Cathedral St. When fully completed, the two buildings will connect, giving the school an additional 29,000 square feet. The facility will feature a new three-story dance studio wing, ensemble rehearsal and teaching studios for music and theater, an additional keyboard lab, four new academic classrooms, two additional science classrooms/labs, a new lecture hall, a new physical education facility, a video/audio/design lab for theater production, a library/media center/computer lab, digital photography lab and a music studio. The new space will allow the school to increase its high school population from 318 to 375 students and to allow 200 more schoolchildren to participate in its after-school program. Founded in 1980, Baltimore School for the Arts is a four-year public high school whose mission is to provide young people with intensive pre-professional training in the arts in the context of a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. Photos by Paul Green

Pictured left to right are: David Nelson, Patricia Joseph and David Simon, with Marcy Lief in the background.

Lead donor Mark Joseph speaks from the podium.

The Hon. Benjamin L. Cardin addresses the audience.

DiPaula, Evans, O'Malley, Simon, Shepard, Joseph, Rivitz & Segal

Baltimore School for the Arts students prepare for the ribbon cutting with James C. “Chip” DiPaula, secretary of budget and management for Maryland; school alumnus James Evans; Mayor Martin J. O’Malley; former school director David Simon; current director Leslie Shepard; lead donor Mark Joseph; the school’s board of overseers chair Jan Rivitz; and the school’s capital campaign chair Clair Zamoiski Segal.

Baltimore School for the Arts students cut the ribbon with, left to right, school alumnus James Evans, class of 1987; Mayor Martin J. O’Malley; Baltimore City Councilwoman Catherine Pugh; and former school director David Simon.