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Maine Arts Commission Grants
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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 2009? Three new grant programs were introduced in Fiscal Year 2009; two new Good Idea Grants—New Media and Arts Visibility—which will be ongoing, and a one time Public Art Lecture Series grant award. The goal of this lecture series is to support a wide range of speakers, topics, and venues throughout the state and across the 2009 calendar. At the end of the series, the Maine Arts Commission will host a concluding event bringing together select series speakers and hosts to share highlights with the public and to reflect on the many accomplishments of the Percent for Art program since its inception 30 years ago.
Additionally, through the conscientious efforts of Maine Attorney Steven Rowe, $21,200 in Antitrust Settlement Funds from Sony Music Entertainment Inc., were targeted for community based music projects. Donna McNeil said, “We are grateful for the opportunity to provide additional support to Maine’s performing arts community. The three projects that were funded were varied in scope and content and demonstrated our particular interest in serving the music community broadly.” The grants funded the creation of a multi-format audio visual documentary of the work and lives of artists in the Portland music scene, a concert of 17th-Century Acadian Music, performed by the DaPonte String Quartet, in recognition of the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Acadia, and a series of educational events sponsored by the Portland Music Foundation.
Bowdoin International Music Festival
Brunswick
support to present the Amernet String Quartet's performance, public discussion and public teaching of Elliott Carter's String Quartet Number 5.
$9,148
Maine State Music Theater
Brunswick
support to produce and perform the musical All Shook Up with a score comprised of the music of Elvis Presley and a story based on Shakespeare's classic Twelve Night.
$15,000
Ogunquit Playhouse
Ogunquit
support for a new, first-class production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.
$20,000
Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor
support to present the play State of the Union to be coupled with a voter registration event at the Bangor Opera House and non-partisan "talk backs" after each performance.
$25,000
Acorn Productions
Portland
support to expand the scope of the Maine Short Play Festival by including several featured playwright performances.
$7,500
Cobscook Community Learning Center
Trescott
support for the Fiber Arts Immersion Week and Celebration, a week of instruction, creation, celebration and community building.
$5,375
A Company of Girls
Portland
support for Building Bridges in Our Community--Celebrating Dia de los Muerto.
$7,500
Friends of DaPonte String Quartet
Damariscotta
support for a concert performance at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens of 17th-Century Acadian music to recognize the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Acadia.
$6,000
Harpswell Festival, Inc.
Harpswell
support for "Aht" on Parade, a collaborative artist project to create life size puppets for the Harpswell Festival Parade.
$2,440
Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta
support to employ Maine artists to serve as mentors and provide workshops for talented high school arts students in Hancock County high schools.
$7,500
MSAD #6
Bar Mills
support for Hatbox House and the Gristmills: Limington Local Stories, a research project and mural collaboration between visiting artists and 3rd graders.
$7,500
North Atlantic Arts Alliance
Cornish
support for the Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival.
$7,500
Northeast Historic Film
Bucksport
support to sponsor the documentary video, The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium.
$7,500
Partners in Island Education
Vinalhaven
support for Island Raised: Songwriting and Recording with local nonprofit organizations and Maine artists.
$6,000
Portland Music Foundation
support for Music as a Profession, a series of educational workshops for Foundation members.
$6,824
Portland Stage Company
Portland
support for the Peer Gynt Project in collaboration with Figure of Speech Theater.
$6,000
Space Gallery
Portland
support for an artist-in-residence with Joshua Loring who will create a multi-format audio visual document of the work and lives of artists in the Portland music scene.
$7,500
Space Gallery
Portland
support for an exhibition of five Maine artists who will design, build and install large-scale dioramas in storefront windows throughout Portland.
$7,500
The Telling Room
Portland
support for Build-a-Book Field Trips, a program that provided the opportunity for young writers from Maine elementary and middle schools to write and publish their own books.
$7,500
Theater at Monmouth
Monmouth
support for a collaboration with the and newly opened Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine to support a professional production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
$7,500
University of Maine Presque Isle
Presque Isle
support for the Sunday Music in the Park Series, the presentation of leading Maine musicians and opening acts by local musicians over six consecutive Sunday afternoons.
$7,500
Children's Museum of Maine
Portland
support to forge a new collaborative model between the Children's Museum of Maine and Children's Theatre of Maine to increase arts organizations' impact and capacity.
$10,000
Five Rivers Arts Alliance
Brunswick
support to develop an outreach intern position to coordinate membership, publicity and outreach initiatives.
$4,935
Greater Portland Landmarks Inc.
Portland
support for Greater Portland Landmarks' Design Congress.
$10,000
Kennebec Valley Art Association
Hallowell
support for personnel development and to provide a match for the Brooks & Miriam Harlow Matching Challenge grant.
$10,000
Maine Crafts Association
Dover-Foxcroft
support to help craft artists develop web portfolios, provide an internet craft guide and create an online community posting board.
$10,000
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town
support to develop new arts marketing materials to participate more broadly in the Creative Economy.
$5,000
Opera House Arts
Stonington
support for Stonington Rocks, the Opera House and More: audience development and community capacity building via a Creative Economy branding campaign.
$10,000
Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance
Portland
support to fund the cost of office space and salary assistance for professional staff.
$10,000
Space
Portland
support to conduct the third part of an organizational evaluation as part of a strategic planning process.
$10,000
Waterville Arts Council
Waterville
support for strategic marketing and planning development for the Waterville Arts
$5,000
Tides Institute and Museum of Art
Eastport
support for the CultuePass Almanac, an on-line, downloadable arts and cultural compendium for the twenty community international Passamaquoddy region that will strengthen conversations for joint arts and cultural promotion.
$10,000
Chocolate Church Arts Center
Bath
support to install an assistive listening system to provide audio reinforcement for patrons with hearing impairments.
$5,650
Lincoln County Community Theater & Orchestra
Damariscotta
support to renovate the performance and audience spaces making the building, including backstage and tech areas, fully accessible.
$10,000
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Ogunquit
support to add a fully accessible restroom.
$10,000
Jeff Badger
South Portland
support for audio installations, Magnetic History and Drawing Machines, for upcoming exhibitions.
$950
Greta Bank
Hollis Center
support for the Cashmere Iron Maiden, an interactive sculpture Installation.
$1,500
Jacob Bluestone
Auburn
support for Parking Lots: [de]constructing a sense of place: a photographic exploration of the consumption of American space.
$1,500
Patricia Brace
Portland
support to create a body of work that explores the evolving definition of domesticity and women's roles through quilting.
$1,500
Alison Chase
Brooksville
support for WhooZ Who, a dance that explores human relationships in shifting and recombining patterns and twisting preconceptions of rules, roles and responsibilities.
$1,500
Jeffrey Clancy
Portland
support to purchase materials to practice the craft of metalsmithing, specifically silver and pewtersmithing.
$1,474
Daniel E. Davis
Portland
support to process, print and buy film for a new body of work, Trailers and the American Dream.
$1,500
Lauren Fensterstock
Portland
support to purchase installation supplies for diamond wall drawings for an exhibit at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
$1,500
Jay Franzel
Wayne
support to work on a manuscript titled Franz and Angelo.
$1,000
Gerald George
East Machias
support for Japanese Noh Theatre Training by expert Noh performers.
$1,500
Chandra Glaeseman
Portland
support to portray the space in-between the pastoral and the commercial through a series of landscape drawings.
$1,065
Meggan Gould
Topsham
support for Verso: a body of photographic work in which the backs of photographs are featured.
$1,500
Lissa Hunter
Portland
support to attend a workshop in Kingston, NY to learn the safe practice of encaustic painting.
$1,500
Leon Johnson
Portland
support for Blue Hammer, a multimedia event involving an actor who toured Africa in the 1950's and now hosts a cable TV program.
$1,500
Richard Keen
Topsham
support for Area Below Water, new work in a series of abstracted paintings based on under-water filming and digital photographs.
$1,500
Joe Kievitt
Portland
support to create a wall drawing installation made with wood.
$1,500
Carl Alexander Klimt
Brunswick
support to create a large scale, site specific fabric installation dealing with architecture, light, texture and gesture in the Coleman Burke Gallery at Fort Andros.
$1,500
Mark Marchesi
South Portland
support for The Maritimes, a photographic exploration of the declining commercial fishing industry in the Eastern coastal areas of the North Atlantic.
$1,500
Tim O'Dell
Brunswick
Brunswick
support to produce Dreams of Pangaea, an album of large scale music compositions.
$1,500
Alyce Ornella
Topsham
support for a sound work titled: Space of Memory: Migration and Rural Identity.
$1,300
David Orser
Parsonsfield
support to re-wire an exsisting kiln shed making it possible to create a new body of work.
$1,500
Tina Rath
Portland
support to create a contemporary cabinet of curiosities of false specimens that question the nature of collecting and the manipulation of nature.
$1,500
Brian Reeves
South Portland
support for Slop Brand Shippable Showroom Franchise: a condensed portable gallery/museum that will "elevate Fine Art to the level of consumer culture."
$1,500
Galen Richmond
Portland
support for a new media work titled Experimental Analog Electronics
$1,390
Penelope Schwartz Robinson
Cape Elizabeth
support to work with the manuscript, Reading the Golden Notebook
$1,500
Caitlin Shetterly
Portland
support to option a short story by Ann Beattie to adapt into a screenplay
$1,500
Alison Chase
Brooksville
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship in Choreography.
$13,000
Randy Regier
Portland
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts.
$13,000
Penelope Schwartz Robinson
Cape Elizabeth
support for an Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature.
$13,000
Bates Dance Festival
Lewiston
support for Deepening the Live Arts Experience for Youth, which incorporated dance and music residencies into the curriculum of three elementary schools in Lewiston.
$10,000
Friends School of Portland
Falmouth
support for a collaboration with the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf to bring in mime educator Karen Montanaro for a residency and a joint performance with students.
$6,300
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle
support for intensive studio residencies for high school students at Haystack School and community-based, week-long residencies at elementary and high schools.
$10,000
Mount Desert Island High School
Mount Desert
support to allow six rural high schools to collaborate on creative writing and performing arts workshops as a component of the Learning in Community--Arts (LINC) program.
$10,000
MSAD #67
Lincoln
support for visits to and residencies by the Portland Museum of Art.
$8,500
Opera House Arts
Stonington
support for Changing Education Through the Arts, a collaboration between the Deer Isle-Stonington Schools and Opera House Arts to provide professional development and related student enrichment activities about learning in and through the arts.
$10,000
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra
Portland
support for the KinderKonzert Series which encourages an appreciation and understanding of music in for up to 20,000 children, ages 3 to 9, throughout Maine.
$10,000
Portland Museum of Art
Portland
support for Winslow Homer and a Sense of Place, a five-day Summer Institute for Teachers.
$10,000
Reiche Elementary School
Portland
support for classroom and art teachers to work collaboratively with professional artists through writing workshops, book-making classes and oral presentations to empower students to share their personal stories by creating and presenting their own picture books.
$6,000
The Telling Room
Portland
support for On the Street Where You Live, which offered students of diverse backgrounds and abilities in the Greater Portland area the chance to document their neighborhood in stories, poems, songs and performances.
$10,000
Youth Arts
Camden
support for two dance residencies, one at a local middle school and one at the high school, as part of a larger arts education program.
$7,000
ArtVan Program
Bath
support for a visual and sculptural project titled Creative Crowns for the 75th Anniversary of the Blaine House, the Governor's Mansion.
$300
Erwin P. Flewelling
Northport
support to prepare four large wooden feathers as presentation awards for Maine Arts Fellows.
$800
Maine College of Art
Brunswick
support for the Maine-Aomori Book Project, Hellow by Scott Nash and Sawanda.
$10,000
Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Portland support for the Crossroads for Community Arts Conference.
$2,000
Heart of Maine Resource Conservation & Development, Inc.
Bangor
support for the Kneading Conference which featured wheat farming, grain milling, wood fired oven construction and wood fired bread baking as a group of interconnected and interdependent traditional art forms.
$2,000
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town
support that brought traditional drum performances (Burnurwurbskek Singers) and youth drum performances (Little Eagles) to MIBA annual events.
$2,000
Museum of African Culture
Portland
support for the Lotino Acholi Project, an on-going project with the Sudanese Acholi community of Maine that uses traditional arts to promote the welfare of its youth.
$2,000
Greg Boardman
Auburn
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in traditional Franco music.
$4,000
Normand M. Gagnon
Rumford
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in traditional Franco-American music.
$4,000
Cynthia Larock
Lewiston
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Franco stepdancing.
$4,000
Indhra Rajashekar
Scarborough
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Bharathanatyam Indian dance.
$4,000
Theresa Secord
Waterville
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Penobscot ash and sweet grass basketry.
$4,000
David Surette
South Berwick
support for a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in traditional Acadian, Quebecois and Celtic music.
$4,000
Donald Roy
Gorham
support for a Traditional Arts Fellowship in Franco Fiddling.
$13,000
Maine Arts Commission
193 State Street
25 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0025
phone: 207/287-2724
fax: 207/287-2725
tty: 1-877/887-3878
e-mail: MaineArts.info@maine.gov
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