The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, which provides philanthropic investment to support the lives and neighborhoods of Baltimoreans, has named a new president and CEO. George A. Hopkins, who has served as the Deutsch Foundation’s Director of Community Innovations for nearly two years, will succeed outgoing president and CEO Jane Brown. Hopkins will begin his new role in January 2027.
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After 31 years, Jane Brown passes the torch to George A. Hopkins, a Cherry Hill native, pastor, and organizer who helped drive Baltimore's "whole blocks" housing plan.
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The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Board of Directors today announced its selection of current senior staff member, George A. Hopkins, to succeed Jane Brown as President & CEO, as of January 2027.
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Proceeds will benefit Open Works, Baltimore’s maker space and business incubator, according to the organization’s website. The nonprofit will celebrate its 10th anniversary Saturday with a free block party.
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Baltimore Beat operates more than 53 Beat Boxes across the city, built in partnership with Open Works, a Baltimore makerspace. Each box carries the newsroom’s free bimonthly print edition, 20,000 copies per run. Many also serve as community exchange stations stocked with toiletries, naloxone, and winter clothing.
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Tangential Realities features Rashida Bumbray, Red Rae, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, and Ada Pinkston, four artists who root their practices in recognizable reality before venturing into the speculative, the utopian, and the unknown. Organized with Alex Ebstein, the exhibition highlights recipients of the Rubys Artist Grant—a program dedicated to nurturing innovative new work in the Baltimore region—whose practices take the everyday as a point of departure and transform it into the unexpected, mapping the terrain between what is and what could be.
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Motor House in Station North will serve as the festival headquarters and will host the FREE Opening Ceremony on Wednesday September 2nd starting at 9pm. Full schedule and list of venues available at www.baltimorecomedyfestival.com
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Dr. Leslie King Hammond and Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims are guest curators for this exhibition. Dr. Hammond is the graduate dean emerita and founder of the former Center for Race and Culture at MICA. She also previously served as a senior fellow at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation in Baltimore. Dr. Sims is an independent curator and art historian and the curator emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design. In 2021–2022, she was the Kress Beinecke Professor at the Center, National Gallery of Art. She received an honorary degree from MICA in 1988.
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The maker space will provide artists, entrepreneurs and the community access to tools, other resources and a shared space to create. It will be a part of Open Works, the makerspace that began in Baltimore’s Greenmount West/Johnston Square. Another Open Works is due for the Walbrook Mill on West North Avenue near Coppin State University.
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What started as a 16-year-old's $700 concert at Baltimore Motor House has grown into a decade-long celebration of the city's music scene, and on August 29 the Love Groove Festival marks its 10th anniversary with a headlining set from five-time Grammy winner Robert Glasper.
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This year a number of large foundations have undergone leadership changes. Philanthropy veteran Fay Twerskey announced her departure from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in May. Earlier in the year, Heather Gerken replaced Darren Walker, who led the Ford Foundation for a dozen years. Three leaders who served in their positions for more than a decade, Drew Altman at KFF, Jane Brown at the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and Mike Pratt at the Scherman Foundation, announced their retirements.
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The decade-old Open Works maker space in East Baltimore has moved a step closer to opening a second city facility, becoming one of several dozen recipients of nearly $1 million total in state economic development grants. Open Works in Greenmount West, which has helped hundreds of artisans and entrepreneurs build small businesses and seen record memberships and enrollments, plans to break ground in early 2028 in West Baltimore in partnership with Coppin State University. A $50,000 state Housing and Community Development grant, announced Monday, will go toward staff oversight of the project, planned for the former site of a lumber yard at 2620 W. North Ave. already redeveloped with apartments and a food hall.
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This Year’s Fellows Will Be the First Cohort Under the Program's Reimagined Structure
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Making America Again: So Strong, So Brave, So True, includes artwork by a representative cohort of Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellow for Artists of Color (1985-1999), whose careers have had a decided impact in the global art world. The upcoming exhibit was guest curated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims and Dr. Leslie King Hammond, former Senior Fellow for the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
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Jung Yun, an associate professor of English at the George Washington University, released her new novel, “All the World Can Hold” (Simon & Schuster, 2026). Yun is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Baker Award for Literary Arts, sponsored by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance; a Rubys Award from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; Individual Artist Fellowships from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council; and artist residencies from MacDowell, Ucross and the Virginia Center for the Arts, among others.
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The project was supported through a Rubys Artist Grant, one of several Baltimore-based funding opportunities that have helped bring her recent work to life.
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The arts and community development foundation's longtime leader will step down later this year.
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Jane Brown will step aside later this year as president and CEO of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation after 31 years of leading the private foundation, which is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Baltimore. The foundation announced Monday that it has launched its search for Brown’s successor.
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After 31 Years, President Jane Brown to Step Aside for New Generation of Leadership
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Join author Kristina Gaddy for an evening of music and history as she plays tunes and songs from 18th and 19th century Virginia and speaks about early banjo history… For her writing and research, Gaddy has received the Parsons Award from the Library of Congress, the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, residencies at Hedgebrook and The Mastheads, and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys artist award.
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