About Us
We provide a multidisciplinary arts education to a diverse range of youth while placing a special focus on underserved communites and youth and young adults with autism and/or other intellectual disabilities in Baltimore City. We aim to strengthen creative skillsets by utilizing art exhibitions, musical theater, art therapy, creative writing, and entrepreneurship education.
Our Goals
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Provide access to the arts and create an environment for youth to learn and develop skills in performing arts, visual arts, entrepreneurship and creative writing.
Utilize the arts to help students develop confidence, responsibility, communication skills, and explore the keys to problem-solving in order to face the challenges in the world around them.
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Hold after-school and summer programming with content centered around accentuating the unique gifts and talents of our students.
Provide a safe space for students with autism and/or minority students in underserved communities within Baltimore City to access, learn, develop, and excel at various visual and performing arts opportunities to assist them in pursuing their life purpose.
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Kammeran Giggers
Founder of R.I.S.E
Kammeran discovered her love for theatre at the age of ten in Baltimore. After performing as a professional actress for serveral years, Kammeran moved back home to Baltimore and began teaching Performing Arts at a private school for students with special needs.
Students who were non-verbal would sing solos in front of an audience. The arts had a way of defying the odds for these students and in turn, pushed them to their greatest potential across all academic subjects and in their personal life. Kammeran knew that there needed to be an increase in arts education everywhere.
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The arts play such an important part in the lives of young people and being able to provide more arts opportunities for these students in the Baltimore City community is what further led Kammeran to create R.I.S.E.