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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

MAINE

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Inc. (aka Bowdoin International Music Festival)
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the EuroFest classical music concert series. Artists scheduled to participate include pianist Emma Tahmizian, classical guitarist Ricardo Iznaloa, and composers Huang Ruo and Samuel Adler.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Brunswick, ME
$5,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a residency by the Amernet String Quartet including performances of American chamber works. The highlight of the week-long residency will be a performance of Elliott Carter's String Quartet Number 5.

Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Fear No Art, a statewide educational outreach program. The project will make the work of contemporary Maine artists available to a variety of audiences.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Story Bank. The project will provide community members with training to document local stories and present them to a wider audience.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Rural Maine Initiative. The project will include a tour of repertory works and teaching residencies in schools, with accompanying outreach activities

Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc.
Portland, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support a convening of historic preservationists, design professionals, and community leaders to discuss successful design principles. The participants will learn tools to aid in the rehabilitation of historic structures and in the creation of new buildings for cultural, educational, and residential purposes.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$769,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Fiberarts
Topsham, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the production of Maine Fiberarts Tour Map: Studios & Farms. The publication will include a state map, a calendar of events, and educational content. The organization will also coordinate an open studio weekend.

Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support New Books, New Readers, a program that provides books and organizes discussion groups about the books across the state for adults with low literacy skills. Trained coordinators oversee the discussions and use broad themes to connect literature to the lives of the participants.

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

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$34,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Summer Institute for Teachers: Winslow Homer and a Sense of Place. Through immersion in a week-long summer workshop on the Winslow Homer's painting, Weatherbeaten (1894), teachers will explore how the artistic, historic, and social significance of a single work of art can be the impetus for sequential, arts-integrated curriculum.

Portland Stage Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Portland, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. The company will collaborate with Figures of Speech Theatre to create a new version of the work that will combine actors, puppets, shadows, music, and movement.

Seal Bay Festival
Vinalhaven, ME
$5,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a festival of American chamber music. Performances and educational workshops will feature American composers Sebastian Currier, Sally Lamb, Libby Larsen, and Barbara White.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (aka Watershed)
Newcastle, ME
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the MudMobile, a van comprising a mobile ceramics gallery and resource center. The traveling services will include visits to as many as 24 schools throughout Maine in support of ceramics workshops at elementary and middle schools and artist residencies in four rural high schools.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $976,500

 
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