Mount Washington’s 37-year-old ceramic arts nonprofit is back from the dead.
More than two months after Baltimore Clayworks’ former executive director announced the organization was shutting down and filing for bankruptcy, a grassroots campaign of Clayworks members and others revealed today that they’ve successfully negotiated a deal to avoid closure, assume control of the nonprofit and install a brand new board of trustees.
The Clayworks Community Campaign, made up of Clayworks members and concerned locals, announced the deal. The group had worked for more than half a year to negotiate with the debt-burdened nonprofit’s ex-leaders on a sale of one the organization’s two Smith Avenue buildings — in order to preclude closure and bankruptcy. Evidently, the old leaders never actually filed for bankruptcy, despite clearing house and locking the doors.
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