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Artists in Maine Communities

Application Deadline: to be announced
Maximum grant amount $7,500 (with a required 1:1 match)
Program Guidelines

This grant supports arts organizations, schools and other community groups that wish to develop collaborative projects that employ Maine artists to benefit Maine communities in innovative ways.

 

Arts Visibility

Application Deadline: June 21, 2013
Maximum grant award: $1,500
Program Guidelines
This grant supports Maine’s artists and arts organizations by providing the means with which to increase the visibility of specific artistic projects.

 

Celebrating the Traditional Arts

Application Deadline: June 21, 2013 and October 4, 2013 
Maximum grant award: $1,500
Program Guidelines
This grant supports traditional artists’ fees for presentations in a range of community settings including festivals, gatherings, fairs, museums, tours and other community events.

 

Arts and Humanities

Application Deadline: March 15, 2013 and May 17, 2013
Maximum grant amount $1,000
Program Guidelines
This grant, jointly administered by the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Humanities Council, funds projects that include elements of both the arts and humanities.

 

Creative Communities = Economic Development

Application Deadlines: Full application upon invitation, October 4, 2013
 Maximum grant award $50,000 (with a required 1:1 match)
Program Guidelines
This grant supports partnerships between cultural, economic and governmental sectors effect community revitalization. Applications will be considered from communities/regions with a strong commitment to inter-sector collaboration that seeks to strengthen the cultural assets of their community.

 

Good Idea Grant

Application Deadlines: June 21, 2013 and October 5, 2013 
Maximum grant amount $1,500
Program Guidelines
This grant supports and fosters the growth of Maine’s artists. The parameters of the grant are purposefully broad and include any good idea that furthers an individual artist’s creative endeavor(s).

 

Great Work(s)

Application Deadline: to be announcedMaximum grant award: $20,000 (with an in-kind and/or cash match)
Program Guidelines
The grant supports professional Maine arts organizations with annual operating budgets of $500,000 or greater to present significant and innovative projects such as an exhibition, performance, film or residency.

 

Individual Artist Fellowship

Deadline for 2013: Functional Craft - May 3, 2013; Literary Arts - May 10, 2013; Visual Arts - May 24, 2013; Performing/Media Arts - June 7, 2013 
Grant award: $13,000
Program Guidelines
This grant rewards artistic excellence, advances the careers of Maine artists and promotes public awareness regarding the eminence of the creative sector in Maine.

 

Innovative Production

Application Deadline: April 5, 2013
Maximum grant award: $2,000 (Organizations are required to show an in-kind and/or cash match)
Program Guidelines
This grant supports artistic innovation in the production and presentation of media and/or performance work of artists and organizations.

 

Jane Morrison Film Scholarship

Application Deadline: April 5, 2013
Maximum grant award: $2,000

Program Guidelines

This grant, offered through a partnership with the Maine Community Foundation and the Jane Morrison Film Fund, supports educational opportunities for filmmakers in the early stages of their career development. The Fund is designed to help filmmakers attain instructional guidance and skills.

 

SMART

Application Deadline: April 5, 2013 
Maximum grant award: $10,000 (with a required match of 1:1)
Program Guidelines
This grant supports schools, arts organizations/institutions and community based teaching artists as they collaborate on the design and delivery of high quality arts learning experiences for K-12 students.

 

Traditional Arts Apprenticeship

Application Deadline: June 14, 2013 
Maximum grant amount: $4,000
Program Guidelines
This grant supports Maine’s communities as they preserve valuable artistic traditions by providing an opportunity for master traditional artists to pass on their skills to qualified apprentices.

 

Traditional Arts Fellowship

Application Deadline: June 14, 2013
Maximum grant amount: $13,000
Program Guidelines
This grant supports artistic excellence, advances the careers of Maine traditional artists, and promotes public awareness regarding the eminence of the creative sector in Maine.