2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

MAINE

Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport, ME
$12,600
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support professional development activities. Kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers, museum educators, and docents will participate in a variety of workshops, classroom visits, and educational tours to engage students in an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art created by living Maine artists.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a traveling exhibition and ethnographic marketing workbook for Tuscarora beadworkers and Akwesasne basketmakers. The purpose of the project is to develop a wider market, and increase public awareness of traditional artists and art forms.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the presentation of a past work in the theater's performance repertory. The project will remount Anerca, to be produced at the St. Lawrence Arts Center in Portland, Maine.

L.A. Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a student matinee program, free theater, and youth internships. The project will provide access to theater presentations for a diverse and underserved population of children and adults in a largely rural and economically depressed region of Maine.

Maine Acadian Heritage Council
Madawaska, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a bilingual CD and guidebook for an international cultural heritage trail. The project will celebrate traditions, cultural sites, and landscapes of the Saint John Valley where the Saint John River forms an international boundary between northern Maine and Canada.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Community Folklorist-in-Residence and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship programs. The programs are designed to bring recognition to local artistic traditions, and to honor and support the artists who continue to practice these traditions.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$608,400
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Inc.
Old Town, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will support master basketmakers and apprentices in the ancient traditions of ash and sweetgrass basketry among the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes in Maine.

Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the construction of an 18-foot birch bark canoe. The canoe will be a part of the Museum's summer exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of George Waymouth's voyage to Penobscot Bay.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of a contemporary play. As part of its Classics in Context Series, The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman will be produced with accompanying community outreach activities.

Penobscot Theatre Company (consortium)
Bangor, ME
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a consortium project for the production and tour of an issue-based theater work to schools and community centers. With the Acadia Hospital Corporation, Penobscot Theatre Company will tour Pals, a one-act play by David Perkins that addresses teen suicide.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a summer symposium series to expand the public's knowledge of ceramics. A series of five public programs with particular emphases will be developed.

MAINE total grants: 12
MAINE total dollars: $779,000

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