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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Rural Maine Touring Initiative. Support will be used to subsidize fees to schools to bring performances, workshops, and extended residency programs to geographically and economically underserved counties in the state of Maine.

L. A. Public Theatre, Inc. (aka The Public Theatre)
Lewiston, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Educational Outreach Program to increase arts access in the largely underserved rural communities of Central Maine. Artistic Director Christopher Schario will lead five integrated programs targeting students, families, and traditionally disadvantaged citizens, offering student matinees, free theater, and student internships.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$790,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an apprenticeship program for master Native American basketmakers to teach ash and sweetgrass basketry traditions. Apprentices will meet weekly with master artists and learn to select and prepare material; their work will be showcased at an annual festival.

Telling Room
Portland, ME
$14,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Way Life Should Be, a free literary arts project. Designed in partnership with the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, the year-long project will help immigrant students use a variety of media to creatively document stories from their homeland and the impact of resettlement in Maine, culminating in an anthology of student writing, short films, and photographs.


Number of Grants: 5          Total Amount: $871,000

 
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