Bruce Willen
Vic Frierson
Nolen Strals
Vic Frierson, founder and director of Partners Educating Artists, Composers & Entertainers (The PEACE Project) and executive director of the Park Heights Community Health Alliance, has teamed up with founders of graphic design and typography studio Post Typography Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals.
photo by La Kaye Mbah
The Neighborhood Exchange Program
We are a city of neighborhoods.
We are a city stratified and fractured along racial, social, and economic lines.
More than 270 unique communities and sub-communities, each with its own history and socioeconomic profile, fit together within the larger border of the city. The idiosyncrasies and individual character of these neighborhoods contribute to Baltimore's rich texture and coarse charm, but they also reinforce Baltimore's stratification and contribute to its entrenched problems. Neighborhoods are pitted against one another for shares of city resources, close neighbors willfully ignore problems in adjacent communities, and residents are discouraged-through ingrained habits, prejudices, or political pressure-from straying beyond their neighborhood boundaries. City neighborhoods can be just as gated as any private community in the suburbs, with walls as psychological as they are physical.
