Since 1979, School 33 Art Center's Studio Artist Program has provided exceptional studio spaces at subsidized rates to more than 120 professional artists. Nine prime spaces (approx. 500 sq. ft. each) are available to local artists. The Studio Selection Panel, comprised of local artists, selects resident artists through a review process. This program has been instrumental in providing a safe, nurturing community and workspace to established and emerging artists in Baltimore. The Center has also hosted a variety of artist residencies and programs that engage the studio artists in the Center's exhibition and educational programming.

STUDIO ARTISTS
at School 33 Art Center

Each studio provides the artist with 24 hour access and a utility sink on the floor. Rent is $325 a month and includes heat and AC controlled by the leasee. Leases are for one year with the second and third year renewable upon approval. There are currently no open studio spaces, but applications will still be accepted for the waitlist.

To be considered, please send a resume and CD or slide portfolio to School 33 Art Center, 1427 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. For more information call 410.396.4641, or email us at school33@promotionandarts.com
  Eligibility : Qualified fine artists. Students and employees of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts are not eligible.

School 33 Art Center's Current Studio Artists

ANNE CHAN received her MFA in 2006 from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art and received her BA in 2000 from Washington College. Most recently, she exhibited her work at the Maryland Art Place’s Annual Critics’ Residency Program in Baltimore and WPA’s 2007 OPTIONS biennial in DC. Just announced, she has also been accepted as as part of the Hamiltonian Artists fellowship program in DC.

ROSETTA DEBERARDINISis an abstract express-ionist painter whose work requires no narrative.Her paintings merge energy, form, texture, space and color. Her work is exhibited and sold at commercial art galleries and venues around the mid-Atlantic region. Eight years ago, she transitioned from attorney, editor and published writer to become a full-time artist.

AMANDA ENGELSrecieved her B.A. in 2002 from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Amanda was the recipient of the Fine Arts Department Award for the Graduating class of 2002. Amanda has exhibited her work in Massachusetts, Virginia, Georgia, and Italy.

JAMES E. MURPHY, JR. graduated with a B.F.A. in Visual Communication from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been showcased in various art exhibitions throughout Maryland. in addition to freelance illustration, James also freelances in website development and logo design.

BILL TAMBURRINO studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has exhibited widely in the Baltimore/Washington DC areas and in selected national and international shows.  Recently he has been inspired by the multi-figure compositions of both the Renaissance and the ancients, and by the similarities found between these historical works and the languages of contemporary painting.

HADIEH SHAFIE was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983, leaving post revolutionary Iran at the height of war, social and political unrest. After graduating from the Pratt Institute in 1999 with an MFA in Painting, Hadieh accepted a fellowship at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she received a second MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts focusing on video installation and performance art.

AARON YAMADA-HANFF graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Art History and in 2006 attended the Post-baccalaureate program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has shown in various exhibitions throughout Maryland and is also a full time concept artist and illustrator.

KATE MACKINNON received her B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1992. She received her M.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Working mainly in oil on canvas, her most recent paintings are pop inspired, minimal, high gloss abstractions that explore formal issues of color and surface, while also questioning the relationship of the viewer to abstraction and the place that art exists in contemporary culture.

HARRY LIVINGSTON is a native of Baltimore City. He has been making art since early childhood. He currently uses as variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, watercolor and oil paints. Much of his work centers around African-American portraiture and storytelling.

There are currently studio spaces available in the Bromo Seltzer Tower in downtown Baltimore.