FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MAINE

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a Creative Community Workbook. The training manual will focus on fieldwork, asset-based planning, community organizing, cultural tourism, and ethnographic marketing.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Rural Maine Initiative. The company will tour plays to underserved young audiences and families throughout the state.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Folklorist-in-Residence, the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship, and the pilot Sustaining Community Traditions. 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
$627,000
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (aka MIBA)
Old Town, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will support basketmakers and apprentices in the ancient traditions of ash and sweetgrass basketry among the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy,and Penobscot tribes in Maine.

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (aka MWPA)
Bath, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a variety of services for professional writers throughout the state. Services include a community Web site, one-on-one mentoring, a regional writing conference, and Maine in Print, an anthology of Maine authors and publishers.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Artful Assessment: Looking to Learn and Student Achievement. The project will increase access to the museum's collection for students in the 3rd to 5th grades and help teachers design and implement new methods of assessment in the arts.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (aka Watershed)
Newcastle, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a symposium series to expand the public's knowledge of contemporary ceramics. Activities will include a symposium by curators, a discussion with Native American potters, a collectors' event, a kiln-building lecture, and presentations by professional artists.

Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $762,000

 
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