When Rose Jaffe started Art on the Block 10 years ago in Montgomery County, Md., she didn't have a job.
"I really wasn't getting that from any other program," the mural painter and art teacher tells the Washington Post.
But that's changed now that she's an artist herself, thanks to the nonprofit's apprenticeships and job training.
"There was the making of the art, the conceiving art, and the production of it," she says.
"I really loved that Art on the Block had a job training element for me, as a high-schooler.
I really wasn't getting that from any other program."
Now she works out of her own studio.
Art on the Block is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend.
Teens and young adults work with master teaching artists to create public art for clients.
"The most unique thing is to have those client experiences and to be able to say 'I was part of making this mosaic that is now out in the world for the public to see every day,'" Goldstein tells the Post.
"I worked on that."
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