FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

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

MAINE

Bangor Folk Festival (aka American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront)
Bangor, ME
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2012 Bangor Folk Festival. Also known as the American Folk Festival, the event will include performances, workshops, and demonstrations presented by more than 100 musicians, dancers, and craftspeople performing blues, gospel, jazz, polka, cowboy, bluegrass, Native American, Klezmer, Cajun, mariachi, and western swing music.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Elder Arts. The project will support a series of training workshops for health care and social service professionals to explore the role of traditional arts in the life review process of senior citizens, presenting a series of folk arts demonstrations, with senior folk artists serving as role models.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Rural Maine Initiative, a program that brings performances, workshops, and extended artist residencies to schools and underserved communities. The tour will feature original productions of Cupid & Psyche, featuring bunraku-inspired (traditional Japanese puppet theater) puppets, actors, and dance; an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's Nightingale; and Jester Kings of Java, a shadow puppet performance that uses authentic Javanese shadow puppets.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$746,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an apprenticeship program for master Native American basketmakers to teach ash and sweetgrass basketry traditions. The program provides partial support for master basketmakers from four federally-recognized Maine tribes (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot) to teach the ancient skills of ash and sweetgrass basketry art to the next generations.

Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a series of exhibitions throughout the state of Maine featuring historic photographs taken between 1909 and the 1940s. The images are real-photo postcards from the glass plate archive of the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, formed in 1909 by an enterprising mariner.

Portland Opera Repertory Theatre (aka PORTopera)
Portland, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. This classic work will be accompanied by an exhibit of artifacts illustrating the story's historical context, which will attract potential audience members with an interest in history and will expose audience members to the long-standing relationships between Maine and Japan dating back to the late 19th century.

Telling Room
Portland, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Young Writers and Leaders, a free, weekly after-school literary arts program for teenaged refugee and immigrant students. Fifteen participants are paired with teaching artists to create original pieces of writing, which they then publish in an anthology and present in a public reading.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support INVITE + IGNITE: 25 Years of Innovative Residencies. INVITE + IGNITE will include exhibitions, interactive site-specific installations, artist demonstrations, lectures, and panels involving nationally and internationally recognized ceramic artists, speakers, and presenters.

Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $886,900

 
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