Just as the economic downturn and narrowing of the curriculum have prompted school districts to cut art classes, a nonprofit organization in Baltimore gives disadvantaged youth the opportunity to create art, earn a stipend, and learn valuable job skills. Each summer, Art with a Heart hires about 40 young people to make marketable art--tables and chairs, jewelry, and lamps, among other pieces--which they then sell at Artscape, an annual summer arts festival in Baltimore. The author discusses Art with a Heart's Summer Job Program in Baltimore which inspires creativity and teaches responsibility. Art with a Heart uses art as a vehicle to teach job skills to students, many of whom have never filled out a job application or looked an interviewer in the eye. The program also allows teens to express themselves through visual art, an opportunity they may not get during the school year.