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title: Basketball-Art Project Leaves Mark on Baltimore Community Center
date: 2023-05-08T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Basketball-Art Project Leaves Mark on Baltimore Community Center

*May 8, 2023* — by [Maryland Athletics Staff](/author/maryland-athletics-staff)


> Collaboration Brings Together Neighborhood Children, Art Professor, Student-Athletes to Create Paintings

*230506 mlm mbb communityservice 162 1920x1080 — Men's basketball players Noah Batchelor (back, left) and Caelum Swanton-Rodger encourage children to bounce their paint-smeared basketballs onto paper jerseys at the Robert C. Marshall Community Center in Baltimore on Saturday. Brandon Donahue-Shipp, assistant professor of art (below, with the student-athletes), led the project in his neighborhood as part of the university's Arts for All initiative.*

From the iconic photo of Michael Jordan taking flight from the free throw line for a dunk to the towering bronze statue outside Los Angeles’ Staples Center of Jerry West controlling the game, basketball has often been the subject of art. This weekend in Baltimore, the game itself became the tool to create art—and to inspire a community.

University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Art Brandon Donahue-Shipp and two members of the Terps men’s basketball team led nearly 30 children in a project at the Robert C. Marshall Community Center to create 14 painted artworks by dribbling the basketball in an unexpected, colorful and messy way. It’s the latest example of UMD’s [Arts for All](https://arts.umd.edu/) initiative, which combines the power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time.


*Brandon Donahue-Shipp, assistant professor of art, two two UMD basketball players*




**Topics:** [Athletics](https://today.umd.edu/tags/athletics)


**Tags:** [Men's Basketball](https://today.umd.edu/topic/mens-basketball), [Visual Arts](https://today.umd.edu/topic/visual-arts), [Arts](https://today.umd.edu/topic/arts)


**Units:** [College of Arts and Humanities](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-arts-and-humanities), [Department of Intercollegiate Athletics](https://today.umd.edu/topic/department-intercollegiate-athletics)