Project Grants for Organizations foster the growth of the arts in Maine by supporting the creation of high-quality arts programming that engages Maine communities, enhances the quality of life and attracts visitors to strengthen Maine’s creative economy.
Applicant |
Community |
Grant Amount |
A Company of Girls
This grant will support ACOG Ensemble, an after-school arts resiliency/prevention program for girls in Greater Portland. |
Portland |
$4,100 |
Abbe Museum
This grant will support the Native American Festival and Basketmakers Market, and the Contemporary Native Arts Summit. |
Bar Harbor |
$4,000 |
Bates College Museum of ArtThis grant will support programming associated with the exhibition, Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts. |
Lewiston |
$4,200 |
Belfast Free Library
This grant will support the 10th Annual Belfast Poetry Festival. |
Belfast |
$1,277 |
Cobscook Community Learning Center
This grant will support RiceFest, an annual celebration of traditional arts, craft, and music held in Trescott, Maine. |
Trescott |
$3,100 |
Denmark Arts Center
This grant will support the DAM JAM COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT, a one-day festival of arts and music in Denmark, Maine. |
Denmark |
$3,400 |
Down East Singers
This grant will support the concert Our Old Testament Heritage in Camden, Maine. |
Nobleboro |
$2,300 |
Ellsworth Community Music Institute
This grant will support the Noon Concert Series in Ellsworth, Maine. |
Ellsworth |
$1,700 |
Engine, Inc.
This grant will support Engine's involvement with the Biddeford Public Art Master Plan. |
Biddeford |
$4,100 |
Fiddle-icious
This grant will be used to build year-round awareness for Fiddle-icious, with a focus on the annual concert series to deliver and preserve heritage music to all Maine's communities. |
Monmouth |
$4,100 |
Figures of Speech Theatre
This grant will support the workshop production, Little Match Girl Passion. |
Freeport |
$3,900 |
Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine
This grant will support the production of a professional touring production of The Lonely Soldier, by award-winning journalist and author Helen Benedict. |
Augusta |
$4,100 |
Houlton Community Arts Center Council
This grant will support a series of professional dance, theater and music performances to encourage the community to experience, support and engage in performing arts. |
Houlton |
$4,000 |
L/A Arts
This grant will support the New Tree Grid Sculpture Project, which will facilitate the installation of a major public art sculpture in downtown Lewiston, ME. |
Lewiston |
$4,200 |
Maine Academy of Modern Music
This grant will support Understand, a collaborative music video celebrating life in Maine. |
Portland |
$4,100 |
Maine College of Art
This grant will support the Portland Brick Project, which celebrates the layers of local culture by combining past, present, and future memories of the city. |
Portland |
$4,000 |
Maine Historical Society
This grant will support The Maine Photo Project, a statewide collaboration among arts organizations featuring exhibitions and public programs exploring the state's role as a magnet for photography. |
Portland |
$4,200 |
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
This grant will support the Maine Chapbook Series. |
Portland |
$4,000 |
Museum L-A
This grant will support Power of Music, LA's music making machine. |
Lewiston |
$3,800 |
Northeast Historic Film
This grant will support the film short, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, adapted from the book of the same title. |
Bucksport |
$4,000 |
Oral History and Folklife Research, Inc.
This grant will support The ADA At 25: A Maine Perspective, a project to mark the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act with an exhibit, slide/audio presentation and radio modules. |
Augusta |
$2,700 |
Penobscot Cultural Historic Preservation Office
This grant will support the reintroduction of traditional snowshoe crafting to the Penobscot nation. |
Old Town |
$3,800 |
Portland Ballet Company
This grant will support the new ballet, Jack the Ripper and the new Portland Ballet Studio Theater. |
Portland |
$4,000 |
Salt Bay Chamberfest
This grant will support the 20th anniversary season artist residencies. |
Damariscotta |
$4,000 |
Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium
This grant will support the 2014 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, a six-week, large-scale, hard stone sculpture symposium creating sculptures for seven towns in Hancock and Washington Counties. |
Steuben |
$4,000 |
The Theater at Monmouth
This grant will support the Theater at Monmouth 2014, Shakespeare in Maine Communities Tour of Macbeth. |
Monmouth |
$3,900 |
Union of Maine Visual Artists
This grant will support the UMVA Journal, an informative, expressive and community-building forum for all Maine artists and art supporters. |
Durham |
$4,100 |
Vienna Union Hall Association
This grant will support Shakespeare in Maine Communities education tour of Macbeth, performed by members of the Theater at Monmouth acting company. |
Vienna |
$600 |
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For General Questions:
Director of Grants & Accessibility
Kerstin Gilg: 287-6719
Help by Discipline:
Interim Media & Performing Arts Director
Meg Fournier: 287-2713
Visual Arts Director
Julie Horn: 287-2790
Arts Education Director
Martha Piscuskas: 287-2750
Traditional Arts Specialist
Kathleen Mundell: 236-6741