BIO
An established artist since 1973, Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen’s successful Baltimore studio has for the past 27 years focused on community-based public art, landscapes, youth art projects, performers - dancers, actors, musicians - and sacred works. From his hometown streets of Baltimore to The Clinton White House, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, China, or Spain, his world-wide art seeks to inspire, inform, engage, and give voice to the voiceless. He served for years in civic engagement management positions, in city and state governments and non-profits, fighting for social, economic, and artistic cultural change. As an artist advocate his work has raised money nationally for the Arts and community non-profit organizations.
Awarded the prestigious Open Society Institute Community Fellowship he co-founded Rebuilding thru Art Project, Inc. (RAP) to make a difference in Baltimore. Now in its 17th year, Baltimore-based RAP has art installations across America demonstrating that community-based public art transforms places and people through illuminating neighborhood issues while bringing together communities to ignite change. His process of team building, social resilience, individual self -esteem, and promoting understanding through art is as important as the end product.
For over two decades Jay has worked with Jewish organizations including recent installations at Pardes Jewish Day School, Scottsdale, AZ, and Capital Camps, Waynesboro , PA.
SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
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Awarded the prestigious Open Society Institute Community Fellowship he co-founded Rebuilding thru Art Project, Inc. (RAP) to make a difference in Baltimore. Now in its 17th year, Baltimore-based RAP has art installations across America demonstrating that community-based public art transforms places and people through illuminating neighborhood issues while bringing together communities to ignite change. His process of team building, social resilience, individual self -esteem, and promoting understanding through art is as important as the end product.
For over two decades Jay has worked with Jewish organizations including recent installations at Pardes Jewish Day School, Scottsdale, AZ, and Capital Camps, Waynesboro , PA.
SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Current projects include The Nikki Perlow Foundation Forest of Hope project, Baltimore, MD; The Banner Alzheimer Institute, Phoenix, AZ; JCC Krakow/Auschwitz -Birkenau in Poland, sponsored by The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, San Francisco, CA;
- His studio work has been in exhibited in over 30 solo and group shows nationally
- Has been awarded more than 40 major grants for his community based-public work
- Longstanding partnerships: 20+ years working with JCCA affiliated organizations serving in national/regional leadership capacities as an Artistic Consultant, Visual Arts Artist in Residence, Artistic Director of Arts and Culture Task Force, and one of the founders of the JCCA Maccabi Arts program; Morgan State University Visual Arts Department; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids Program;
- Two time winner of the prestigious JCCs of North America Biennial Zahav Award for “truly outstanding, visionary initiatives with maximum impact or potential for change” for the Grow Justice Mural and Garden, at The Peninsula JCC in Foster City, CA and the Tisha B’Av project, re-visioning the destruction of the Temples in biblical Jerusalem, Capital Camps, Waynesboro, PA.
- Portrait painting of President Clinton Playing the Saxophone displayed in The White House for four years, was selected as the Music of the Clinton White House CD cover image, and is permanently installed in the Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, AK.
- Artist in Residence at Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, MD, an Actors Equity company.
- Art workshops every spring in Baltimore and Washington, DC since 2014 for The Wire class - partnering with Dr. Toby Gordon, Academic Director, Health Care Programs of Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.
- Served as Director of the Maryland Film Commission from 1987 to1993, and worked on more than 35 Hollywood film and TV productions, including John Water’s Hairspray and Barry Levinson’s television series Homicide.
- Producer of the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the Actors’ Studio in New York and continued with the “Tony” award winning show on Broadway.
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