BALTIMORE — It's bright, it's colorful, and it's hard to miss.

It's Heartwares, a store that opened here on 36th Street in Hampden a few months ago in a space that, fittingly, was a community center.

Now, that space is giving back to the community, offering free art classes and more.

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“We're super excited to be in the neighborhood and having people walk by that don't even know about us and we have a chance to share our story with them,” says Kristina Harlee, social enterprise manager, Art with a Heart.

Heartwares is not just a store. It's a workforce development program by the nonprofit Art with a Heart that uses visual arts as a way of teachin

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