Bartol Foundation

Bartol Foundation At the Bartol Foundation, we believe that everyone deserves access to the arts.

Everyday, in every corner of Philadelphia, young people are learning to play Bach or Miles Davis, artists are creating work that will challenge us or make us laugh, communities are transforming empty lots into visual stories. Through our grant programs in the arts, we support organizations that provide creative opportunities to connect and engage, that give voice to a community’s history and futur

e, that sustain and share a rigorous artistic process. Through our extensive free professional development programs for teaching artists, we invest in the vital contribution artists make to our community by strengthening their teaching practice and building a network in the field. In addition to our grantmaking and workshops, we lend our expertise and resources to build the strength of cultural organizations while advocating for the inclusion of arts and culture in broader community strategies.

🎉Directory Spotlight: Mae EarlyMeet Mae Early—a theatre educator, facilitator, and trauma-informed trainer who created B...
06/24/2026

🎉Directory Spotlight: Mae Early

Meet Mae Early—a theatre educator, facilitator, and trauma-informed trainer who created Bartol’s 20-hour trauma-informed training for teaching artists and arts administrators.

Formerly the Director of Education at Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Program Manager for First Person Arts’ Trigger VIP Program, Mae has led more than 1,500 workshops across the Greater Philadelphia region focused on storytelling, creative expression, and healing-centered teaching practices.

regularly facilitates professional development nationally on trauma-informed arts education, workforce development, and teaching artistry, partnering with organizations including the Kennedy Center, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Learn more about Mae and other artists in the Bartol Directory.

☀️ Last chance to register for this summer’s THE LAB workshop: Reimagined Materials with ! ♻️ "Re-imagine" learning from...
06/22/2026

☀️ Last chance to register for this summer’s THE LAB workshop: Reimagined Materials with ! ♻️ "Re-imagine" learning from one of the best without even having to leave your house!

Julie Woodard, teaching artist and creative reuse advocate, is passionate about sustainable artmaking and community-centered creativity. She'll help you explore creative reuse, sustainable artmaking practices, and hands-on ways to incorporate alternative materials into classrooms, community spaces, and personal creative practice.

⏰ 📆 Tuesday, June 23 | 6:30p-8:00p
💻 Virtual Workshop - Zoom
Don’t miss it!

Congratulations to the newly certified teaching artists of TIPTA Cohort 16! 👏🎉Please join us in celebrating:✨ Taylor Wel...
06/19/2026

Congratulations to the newly certified teaching artists of TIPTA Cohort 16! 👏🎉

Please join us in celebrating:

✨ Taylor Wells
✨ Eddy Laughter
✨ Tina L. Riley
✨ Nila Devaney
✨ blew kind
✨ Manuela Guillén
✨ Carolyn Kline-Coyle
✨ Brooke Shilling
✨ Ayiana Viviana Porter
✨ Valentina Sierra

We’re proud to welcome these artists and educators into Bartol’s growing network of trauma-informed practitioners creating safe, community-centered spaces. 💛

Interested in joining the next training? Registration for the TIP Online cohort is open until June 19th! Get started here: learning.bartol.org/

06/19/2026

✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Happy Juneteenth!✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Today we celebrate freedom, resilience, and Black history, culture, and creativity. It’s also a reminder of the ongoing work toward equity, justice, and liberation.

Bartol honors the generations of Black artists, educators, organizers, and cultural workers whose creativity continues to shape our communities and collective understanding.

So we’re spotlighting , whose work beautifully embodies the power of community and cultural celebration. Their annual Celebrate Mantua 2026 event returns on Saturday, July 11 at 11:00 AM at Miles Mack Playground in West Philadelphia. This is a free outdoor gathering filled with movement classes, drill team performances, youth showcases, food vendors, and an evening Main Stage concert featuring PHILADANCO!, DANCE IQUAIL!, Native Nations Dance Theater, and more.

🔗Learn more: https://danceiquail.org/company/performance-calendar/celebrate-mantua-2026-2026-07-11-110000.html

❤️🖤💛💚 Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth.

🎉 Directory Spotlight: David A. GainesMeet David A. Gaines—a Philadelphia-born poet, director, and actor whose work expl...
06/18/2026

🎉 Directory Spotlight: David A. Gaines

Meet David A. Gaines—a Philadelphia-born poet, director, and actor whose work explores the intersectionality between Blackness, masculinity, Christianity, and mental health.

A nationally touring poetry performer and the Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA, David’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, VICE Media, Button Poetry, and more. His forthcoming poetry manuscript, CECIL, was selected as the first runner-up for the 2025 AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize.

His films have been featured at BlackStar Film Festival, the Gary International Black Film Festival, and the National Black Arts Festival. When he’s not writing or performing, David teaches poetry in Philly public schools.

Find out about more artists like David in the Bartol Directory.

Show Us Your Summer!Teaching a camp? Drop that photo. Launching a new project? Share the process. Taking a much-deserved...
06/17/2026

Show Us Your Summer!

Teaching a camp? Drop that photo. Launching a new project? Share the process. Taking a much-deserved vacation? Send us the selfie.

All summer long, we’re spotlighting the Bartol community in every form — the work, the rest, the creativity, and everything in between.

Here’s how to be featured:
📸 Tag us
📩 Or DM us your photos and videos

Use so we can find you.

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Did you know that we can bring Bartol training to you?!Bartol offers both signature sessions and customized trainings fo...
06/11/2026

Did you know that we can bring Bartol training to you?!

Bartol offers both signature sessions and customized trainings for nonprofits, collectives, schools, and cultural institutions looking to build shared language, tools, and understanding around trauma-informed arts education.

Whether you’re looking for a single workshop or a multi-session training series, we’ll work with you to design something that fits your goals, community, schedule, and budget.

Our trainings include:
✅ Experienced facilitators who are practicing artists and arts administrators
✅ Flexible formats and scheduling
✅ Practical, trauma-informed strategies you can apply right away
✅ Customized content tailored to your team and programs
✅ Shared tools and vocabulary to strengthen your organization’s approach

📩 Contact us at [email protected] to learn more or design a custom training for your organization.

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✨Meet the Facilitator: I-Chia Chiu 邱奕嘉We’re excited to introduce the facilitator for our next workshop in The LAB series...
06/10/2026

✨Meet the Facilitator: I-Chia Chiu 邱奕嘉

We’re excited to introduce the facilitator for our next workshop in The LAB series: Landscapes of re-membering: a writing workshop on presence, touch, and time.

I-Chia Chiu is a certified facilitator and affiliate member of Amherst Writers and Artist community. She explores embodied practices and re-imagines ways to guard over people's solitude in creative space. In this space, she as the facilitator is not a teacher. She will join writing and share the risk of writing.

Don't miss this exciting workshop on June 11 from 6:30–9pm in-person at Studio 34! Register today.

☀️ Summertime in THE LAB ☀️Missed this workshop in the spring? We’re excited to welcome back for a virtual edition of R...
06/09/2026

☀️ Summertime in THE LAB ☀️

Missed this workshop in the spring? We’re excited to welcome back for a virtual edition of Reimagined Materials!

♻️ Creative reuse is all about finding new purpose in everyday materials through affordable, low-waste artmaking practices.

Through storytelling, idea sharing, and hands-on artmaking, this workshop invites teaching artists from all disciplines to explore sustainable approaches they can bring into the classroom, community spaces, and their own creative practice.

We’ll cover:
• Techniques for integrating alternative materials
• Sustainable artmaking practices
• Tips for sourcing and preparing materials
• Best practices for student engagement

Participants will also receive a suggested materials list ahead of the workshop so you can fully participate in the artmaking activities from home🙌.

Facilitator: Julie Woodard
📆 Tuesday, June 23 | 6:30p-8:00p
💻 Virtual Workshop
👉 Register now to join us this summer!

🎉 Directory Spotlight: katherine perryMeet katherine perry—a Philadelphia-based performer, director, trauma-informed edu...
06/08/2026

🎉 Directory Spotlight: katherine perry

Meet katherine perry—a Philadelphia-based performer, director, trauma-informed educator, intimacy director, creative engine, and self-proclaimed "professional fool."

For more than a decade, katherine has worked with students from pre-K through adulthood across the Philadelphia area. Their teaching experience includes in-school workshops, professional development, multi-week intensives, and summer camp programming.

katherine also brings extensive experience supporting students with physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and neurodiversity, helping create learning spaces that are responsive and accessible.

Learn more about katherine and other artists in the Bartol Directory.

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