Baltimore Museum of Art Receives $10 Million Gift in Support of Education Initiatives
72Oct. 30, 2025
Philanthropists Amy and Marc Meadows have promised theBaltimore Museum of Artmore than $10 million to support educational programming for local students. Made through the couple’s Stoneridge Foundation, the gift is the largest in the institution’s 110-year history and will establish the Amy and Marc Meadows Education Endowment, which will progressively distribute the funds. The gift supports six initiatives: transportation for public school trips to the BMA; the maintenance of Free Family Sundays; the expansion of the Close Encounters program, with a 2-year pass system that creates opportunities for free attendance among family, caregiver, and friend networks; the development of an internship program for teaching apprentices in museum education; the creation of a speaker series for adults focused on the future of museums and community; and the endowment of future additional positions for museum educators.
Amy Meadows, a longtime BMA trustee and now an honorary trustee, spent her career as an art consultant, while Marc Meadows, an art director and graphic designer, is the founder of Meadows Design Office.
“The phrase ‘art patrons’ does not begin to describe the passion, intellectual rigor, and peerless insights that Amy and Marc have shared with me over the many years of our friendship. With the Amy and Marc Meadows Education Endowment, the BMA will give Baltimore and our communities the resources they deserve: a thoughtful range of programs and opportunities for students, families and caregivers, and lifelong learners,” said BMA director Asma Naeem in a statment. “Arts education has been proven, many times over, to have a positive effect on children and teens, supporting critical thinking skills, emotional regulation, and creating pathways to successful academic performance across disciplines. It is an understatement to say that I look forward to what we will be able to achieve together through this transformational gift and model of civic and art philanthropy. We are immensely grateful to Amy and Marc for their generosity, collaboration, and forward-looking vision.”