Michelangelo considered fine art the “shadow of divine perfection,” while 20th-century poet and satirist Dorothy Parker called it “a form of catharsis.”

These are just two reasons why Baltimore?s Young Audiences/Arts for Learning Executive Director Stacie Sanders strives to fuse student experiences with music, dance, painting and the plastic arts with learning standards imposed by the 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education Act ? part of the rigorous No Child Left Behind Act.