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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
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

Bowdoin International Music Festival
Brunswick, ME
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Echoes of Eight Decades: Bowdoin Festival Celebrates George Crumb. As part of Crumb's 80th birthday celebration, plans include performances of the composer's chamber music by the Aeolian Chamber Players, discussions, and master classes for composition students, including one led by the composer.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Artists-of-the-Forest. The project will include a regional fieldwork survey to identify and document traditional artists in the Northern Forest region and organize artists' gatherings in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support a theater arts residency program in rural Maine. The series of week-long classroom residencies will focus on the creation and performance aspects of Chinese shadow-theater puppetry.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$816,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support New Books, New Readers, a program that provides books and organizes discussion groups around the state for adults with low literacy skills. Trained coordinators oversee the discussions and use broad themes to connect literature to the lives of the participants.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Maine Indian Basketmakers Gathering/Festival. The project will support basketmakers and apprentices in traditional ash and sweetgrass basketry of Maine's Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Penobscot tribes.

Maine State Museum
Augusta, ME
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing and Costume. The exhibition will focus on the little known, traditional textile arts of the Wabanaki peoples from the prehistoric period to the late 19th century.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Winslow Homer Wood Engravings Access Project. The museum's collection of more than 400 engravings will be made available for the first time via in-gallery interpretive tools and online.


Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $1,039,000

 
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