FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

MAINE

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc. (aka Alice James Books)
Farmington, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion, including author tours, of six new titles of poetry. The selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support extended artist residency activities for Generation NEXT participants including Tania Isaac Dance Projects, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Moses' Kin, and Paul Matteson/Jennifer Nugent. Educational activities will include free pre- and post- performance lectures, a choreographers' panel on contemporary issues, and a class entitled Issues in Dance Aesthetics.

Brunswick Area Arts & Cultural Alliance (Midcoast REACH)
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a Creative Communities Institute. The Institute will assist residents of Maine's midcoast in the development of a plan to expand the region's arts, culture, and heritage activities.

Maine Arts Commission (Consortium)
Augusta, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project for a waterfront landscape design in Portland, Maine. Working with the Maine Department of Transportation, an artist team will transform an environmentally damaged waterfront area into a coastal park that interprets Maine's cultural and environmental history.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the integration of composers, musicians, and choreographers in the collaborative process. Composer Julian Fleisher will create original music for Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard; Emmy Award-winning Broadway choreographer Marge Champion will consult on choreography for Syncopation by Allan Knee.

Stanton, Maureen Patrice
Georgetown, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $110,000

 
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