2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

MAINE

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$24,000
To support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from three annual competitions. Selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Bangor, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support Back to the River-a Penobscot River Tour, featuring performances and associated educational activities centered around a new work by Thomas Oboe Lee.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support extended residency activities. New Voices/New Works program will include Rennie Harris/Puremovement, Everett Dance Theatre, Shawn McConneloug, Tere O'Connor Dance, and Victoria Marks.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Brunswick, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the 40th anniversary season of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and the commissioning of new works by composers Robert X. Rodriguez, Dalit Warshaw, Gia Comolli, and George Crumb.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a production of Arthur Miller's classic, The Crucible. The theater will also present a series of interactive outreach programs about the relationship between the 17th-century Salem witch trials and 1950's McCarthyism.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support a three-tiered approach to the development of new work. By connecting the Clauder Competition, the Little Festival of the Unexpected, and a full-scale production of a selected work, the theater will develop professional opportunities for local writers.

Maine Total Dollars Awarded: $99,000
Maine Total Grants Awarded: 6

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