Nate Aldrich
Grant: $1,550Artists Nate Aldrich and Zach Poff, have been awarded an innovative production grant to create a permanent interactive sound-scape installation at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. The piece will allow visitors to participate in the creation, appreciation, and re-mixing of an audio community self-portrait through software and interface designed by the artists.
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Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Grant: $2,000Haystack is bringing 21st century technology to their world class school of craft by creating a Digital Fabrication Lab (Fab Lab). The project involves working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Bits and Atoms, which has set up Fab Labs across the globe. Lab creation was made possible through generous private donations. Funding from the Maine Arts Commission will go to host seminars and workshops about integrating this new technology with the Maine design community.
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Bates Dance Festival
Grant: $2,000
The grant money supports the Bates Dance Festival in the production of Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey's latest multimedia work, “A Crack in Everything,” as a staged presentation and installation, on July 29-30, 2011.
Opera House Arts
Grant: $2,000
The grant money supports “Shakespeare in Stonington: Much Ado About Elizabeth Rex.”
Maine College of Art
Grant: $1,750
The grant money supports bringing artist Daniel Rozin to the College's Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the exhibition “Fracturing the Burning Glass: between Mirror and Meaning.”
Total: $9,300