A Home for BuildaBridge (visit our blog)
BuildaBridge is an “incarnational” organization; as such, it is important that its facilities are part of the community it serves. In February 2003 Corbitt and Nix-Early purchased a 15,000 sq. ft. (1400 square metres) historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (in the Germantown neighborhood) that would become the BuildaBridge House. Ten fully-functioning apartments house BuildaBridge offices and a number of the staff, including the Corbitt and Nix-Early families. The mansion also provides affordable housing for like-minded people interested in urban transformation. The BuildaBridge staff has grown to twenty full-time, part-time and volunteer staff.
Currently, BuildaBridge is developing plans to convert the mansion’s carriage house into a functioning art education and therapy studio with space for a resident teaching artist. The Community Studio will provide a safe place for long-term mentoring of children in the community.
Community Studio
BuildaBridge proposes to develop part of the BuiildaBridge House property, the Carriage House, into a functioning pottery, ceramic, and art studio space called the Community Studio. The impetus for this idea has come from a need to maintain ongoing relationships with youth and families whom we meet and serve in transitional contexts. The Community Studio is to be a community-based pottery & art studio that will offer art-making & therapeutic art experiences to community youth & families for the purpose of their holistic development.
The Community Studio will:
- Create a place for art-making, education and healing in the community where BI resides
- Create a place for on-going relationship building with kids from transitional contexts
- Create a revenue stream to support the charitable work of BI
- Create a public "face" for BI
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