Buildings and Grounds

After seven years of developing a strong community and searching long and hard, Arts & Ideas acquired a fantastic building in the Fall of 2015. Our main building is about 12,000 square feet spaced over 4 floors. We are ADA complaint with an elevator for those in need of one.

As you walk into the building from Holder Avenue, you will see on your right a fully stocked library that also serves as a quiet study space. On the left is our office, often busy with students and staff coming and going. Going further down the hall is our spacious dining room with a commercial kitchen that our kitchen corporation uses. Down in our basement, we have a recreation area and our lockers.

Upstairs, you will find students playing games like Minecraft or practicing coding skills in our computer lab, rehearsing advanced gymnastics techniques in our gym room, and flexing their creativity by making extraordinary projects in the art room, or recording stop animation movies and youtube videos in the video recording studio. There is also plenty of versatile hang out spaces that are perfect for impromptu board games, science experiments, or simply spending time with friends. The second floor also is where you will find our Judicial Committee and School Meeting when they are in session.

Most of our musical instruments, including guitars, a drum set, and piano, as well as music recording equipment are housed in the neighboring carriage house, another building on the property that is about 900 square feet. We love having the music room in a separate building so that all the musicians at our school can rock out as loud as they want to! We also intend for the carriage house to be the future site of our woodworking area.

Our property also has the wonderful and rare combination of both ample green space and access to urban resources. The field is like a blank canvas - a full acre of flat, green grass just waiting to be transformed into a natural playscape right in Baltimore City. The surrounding neighborhood provides safe, residential streets that are perfect for casual strolls on warmer days. We are also less than half a mile from local businesses such as Zeke’s Coffee and Red Canoe Cafe on Harford Road.

We would love to show you our beautiful campus - come check it out at our next open house! link to open house schedule