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2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

MAINE

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$62,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support a consortium project to create sourcebooks, CDs, and DVDs for the Suitcase Projects. Produced in partnership with the Franco American Heritage Center, the thematic, multimedia materials will document the tour performances of leading traditional dancers and musicians from immigrant and refugee communities in the Northeast.

Maine Acadian Heritage Council
Madawaska, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a compact disc and guidebook of the Saint John Valley cultural heritage trail. The project will introduce local residents and visitors to the region's cultural and historic sites, museums, traditional artists, family farms, stories, traditional cuisine, and music.

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Building Community Through the Arts. The project offers in-school and after-school artist residencies in theatre and dance for rural Maine high schools, as well as regional conferences for the participants.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program. The program will bring recognition to local artistic traditions and will honor and support master artists who continue to practice these traditions.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$610,200
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Inc.
Old Town, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program will support 20 master basketmakers and 25 apprentices in the ancient traditions of ash and sweetgrass basketry among the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes in Maine.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$43,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Look at ME. Through professional development for teachers, docents, and parents, the museum will link its collection with books by Maine authors to serve as a catalyst for visual arts learning and literacy for students in kindergarten through second grade.

MAINE total grants: 7
MAINE total dollars: $810,200


 
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