Maine Arts Commission Grants
Fiscal Year 2008 (2007-2008) abridged

Grant Program Guidelines, Applications and Forms

The Maine Arts Commission provides grant support for artists, school districts, community organizations and art institutions through a variety of specialized grant programs. The Maine Arts Commission draws on its state appropriation and federal funds through the National Endowment for the Arts, in addition to tapping into other public and private resources, to make awards across the entire state.

What’s special about 2008? Fiscal year 2008 marked the second year of the Cultural Facilities Accessibility program with grants being awarded to assist new capital projects and renovations as well as technology projects and/or improvements. This unique opportunity, made possible by the Jobs for a Healthy Maine Bond, which was developed to stimulate economic growth and job creation through investments in the Maine economy, allowed the Maine Arts Commission to fund capital upgrades that the agency could not legally fund otherwise. Additional funds in the amount of $30,000 were made available for FY2008 through the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Leadership Accessibility Award presented to the Maine Arts Commission in January 2007.

Arts in Education in the Community

Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Bangor
support for Know Your Orchestra!
$10,000

Denmark Arts Center
Denmark
support for Shadow World, a puppetry residency
$10,000

East End Community School PTO
Portland
support for an African Drumming and Percussion residency
$10,000

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport
support for the Freeport Teen Project and Indonesian Shadow Puppet Project
$10,000

L/A Arts
Lewiston
support for an expanded Readers Theatre project with Lewiston and Auburn schools.
$10,000

MSAD #33
Frenchville
support for arts and writing: residencies with published authors, illustrators, and poets, a playwright and the Pocket Opera Players.
$10,000

MSAD #67
Lincoln
support for a series of artists in residencies
$10,000

North Haven Community School
North Haven
support for The Art and Culture of Native American People of Maine
$10,000

PCA Great Performances
Portland
support for 2007-08 Arts Education and Outreach programs
$10,000

Artists in Maine Communities

Bates College Museum of Art
Lewiston
support for Green Horizons
$7,500

Bucksport High School
Bucksport
support for Learning in the Community—Arts
$7,500

Children's Museum of Maine
Portland
support for multicultural performing programs
$7,500

Lubec Landmarks, Inc
Lubec
support for the commission of a musical composition
$7,500

Maine Folklife Center
Orono
support for Maine's Woodcarving Tradition
$7,500

Medomak Valley Community Foundation
Waldoboro
support for Waldoboro Paint the Town
$1,923

Museum L-A
Lewiston
support for Shoeworkers Oral History
$7,500

Opera House Arts
Stonington
support for world premiere of Quarryography
$5,000

PCA Great Performances
Portland
support to commission a musical composition
$7,500

Portland Education Partnership
Portland
support for two performance workshops
$4,725

Salt, Inc.
Portland
support for the Malaga Island project
$7,500

Spindlework
Brunswick
support for Cirque du Peuple
$7,500

The United Society of Shakers
New Gloucester
support for artist's presentations
$7,000

WMPG Radio
Portland
support for Poets on Radio
$7,500

American Masterpieces Visual Arts Projects

Maine College of Art
Portland
support for Re-visioning Portland
$20,550

Museum of Art Alliance
Bangor
support for Todd Webb, Joy Without Measure
$24,500

Building Capacity in Maine's Communities

Dyer Library Association
Saco
support for the Twin Cities Creative Council
$10,000

Eastport Arts Center
Eastport
support to build organizational capacity
$10,000

Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center
Gardiner
support to hire an assistant to the director
$10,000

Creative Work Systems
South Portland
support for creative economy activities
$10,000

Mahoosuc Arts Council
Bethel
support for a board retreat with the agency’s new director
$3,600

The Maine Highlands Guild
Dover-Foxcroft
support for the Maine Crafts Consortium
$10,000

Opera House Arts
Stonington
support to sustain community leadership
$10,000

Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project
Houlton
support for a capacity building initiative
$10,000

The Telling Room
Portland
support for multi-stage board development
$10,000

Tides Institute
Eastport
support to expand CulturePass
$10,000

City of Westbrook
Westbrook
support for community strategic planning
$10,000

Cultural Facilities Accessibility

Denmark Arts Center
Denmark
support to renovate the entrance and media lab
$10,000

Fiddlehead Center for the Arts
Gray
support to replace HVAC units
$10,000

The Grand
Ellsworth
support to upgrade projection equipment
$10,000

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle
support to install an accessible bathroom in the new community program building
$10,000

Ogunquit Arts Collaborative
Ogunquit
support to install railings, a ramp and grab bars
$3,000

Portland Stage Company
Portland
support for lighting and handrails
$10,000

SPACE Gallery
Portland
support for an audio/visual upgrade
$10,000

Good Idea Grants

Titus Abbott
Bowdoin
support to attend the School for Improvised Music
$450

Karen K. Adrienne
Gardiner
support to produce large prints
$1,000

M. J. Benson
South Portland
support to create new color Holga photography
$765

Kate Cox
Portland
support to develop Safe Haven, a large scale installation
$775

Tillman Crane
Camden
support to create digital enlarged negatives
$1,000

Amy Stacey Curtis
Lyman
support for the development of the installation LIGHT
$1,000

Kathleen Lignell Ellis
Orono
support for Circling Katahdin: Poems, Prose and Photos
$700

Mary Hart
Portland
support to create an artist's book combining original printed poetry and painted images
$810

Anna Hepler
Portland
support for Kinetic Explorations
$1,000

Adriane Herman
Portland
support for the creation of Checking It Twice
$1,000

Matt Herrick
Brunswick
support to publish Dis Place
$1,000

Emma Holder
Portland
support for a Tango-Bellydance fusion project
$1,000

Matt Hutton
Portland
support to travel and research new body of studio work
$1,000

Derek Jackson
Portland
support for Something's Not Right
$1,000

Diana Johnson
Freeport
support to create to create new, larger works
$949

Kate Kaminski
South Portland
support to complete TRIP, a 60-minute avant garde road film
$1,000

Richard J. Keen III
Topsham
support to purchase a multimedia projector
$333

Sage Lewis
Portland
support for electronic needlework design
$550

Randy Regier
Portland
support to create the Nu Penny Five and Dymaxion toy store
$1,000

Justin Richel
Rangeley
support to create a site-specific work in Switzerland
$984

Cara Romano
Bar Harbor
support to study contemporary American art jewelry and create a new body of work
$1,000

Micah Blue Smaldone
South Portland
support to record a full length CD
$1,000

Antonia Small
Port Clyde
support to create Fair Isle
$970

Sara Smith
Portland
support to purchase a video projector to incorporate digital video into choreographed works
$450

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Portland
support to develop Pine and Nerve, a manuscript of poems
$1,000

Elizabeth Tibbetts
Hope
support for a writing retreat in Guatemala to generate a new group of poems
$1,000

Barbara Truex
Windham
support to create a full, original score for The Hemline Chronicles
$1,000

Kenneth White
Portland
support to create a multimedia installation, Directions of Encounter
$987

Individual Artist Fellowships

Karen Montanaro
Casco
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship
$13,000

Jeffrey Thomson
Farmington
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship
$13,000

Sam Van Aken
Portland
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship
$13,000

Partnership Agreement

Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport
support for Arts Service Partnership Agreement
$8,000

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta
support for Arts Service Partnership Agreement
$8,000

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Portland
support for Arts Service Partnership Agreement
$8,000

VSA arts of Maine
Portland
Art Service Partnership Agreement
$8,000

Special Projects

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport
support to administer the Franco Music Tour
$44,000

Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Bangor
support for Juice Conference
$6,000

Five Rivers Arts Alliance
Brunswick
support for Crossroads for Community Arts
$10,000

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta
support for a statewide Arts in Education conference
$500

Maine Center on Deafness
Portland
support for Theatrical Interpreting Workshop
$500

Maine Historical Society
Portland
support for Responding to Longfellow: The Poet in American Culture
$1,500

Sustaining Traditional Arts in the Community

Town of Sanford
Sanford
support for timber framing instruction
$2,000

Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grants

Watie J. Akins
Brewer
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Penobscot music
$3,392

Greg Boardman
Auburn
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Franco fiddling
$3,000

John Connors
Saint Francis
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Acadian batteaux building
$3,400

Donald Roy
Gorham
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Franco fiddling
$3,000

Traditional Arts Fellowship

Molly Neptune Parker
Princeton
support for a Traditional Arts Fellowship
$13,000

Maine Arts Commission Grants Fiscal Year 2008 (2007-2008) abridged