2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MAINE

Arcady Music Society
Bar Harbor, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a rural tour by musicians of the Arcady Summer Music Festival. Chamber ensembles together with other musicians will travel to six underserved communities of Maine. During each of the six weeks of the summer festival, artists will tour to a different rural community in inland Maine.

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Latino Down East/hispano de bajo este. In consortium with the Latino Community Council of Maine, the project involves a series of artist residencies, workshops, performances and in-school educational programs with local Caribbean, Mexican and Central American communities.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a midcoast regional folklorist position. Activities will include mounting an exhibit, enhancing heritage tourism related to traditional artists and artistic traditions, providing technical assistance, and developing marketing opportunities and a retail outlet for the artists' work.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation (consortium)
Bangor, ME
$80,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the National Folk Festival. The festival will connect cultural groups to their own heritage while providing rural Maine with access to high quality performances and material culture.

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of Building Community Through the Arts. This in-school artist residency program is designed to foster positive social relationships among students through theatre and dance.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support field research and the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Working with established organizations and artists, folklorists will inventory artists and art forms while identifying lesser known community-based groups and artists.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$596,400
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Next Generation Project. The intertribal/intergenerational project will engage tribal members between the ages of 13 and 30 in one-on-one apprenticeships with master weavers.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Diary of Anne Frank and an accompanying outreach project. A series of multicultural and intergenerational initiatives for schools, libraries and senior centers will engage the theater's community in an examination of bigotry in the contexts of religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support AXIS (Artists eXchange Ideas with Students). The statewide initiative uses 19th century American art and architecture as instructional keys for middle school students in urban and rural sites.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$32,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Portland's Golden Age: 1800-1860, with accompanying education programs. The project will highlight Portland's 19th century artistic and economic boom, which served as a catalyst for the formation of the city's cultural landscape.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The MudMobile will increase its services to the elderly and to other community organizations that serve a variety of social service needs.

Total Dollars Awarded: $897,400
Total Grants Awarded: 12

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