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FY 2010 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
$11,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Bowdoin Plays Out!, a community outreach and education program. Chamber music performances will take place in locations accessible to traditionally underserved groups such as low-income shipyard and Naval Air Station workers, seniors, underprivileged children, and others throughout mid-coast Maine.

Bowdoin International Music Festival
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support composer residencies and performances of American chamber works, with related educational activities. Composers Samuel Adler and Claude Baker will be in residence during the summer festival and the Ying Quartet will perform works by composers Richard Danielpour and John Novacek.

LA Public Theater, Inc. (aka The Public Theatre)
Auburn, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Artistic Director Christopher Schario will lead five integrated programs to increase access to the arts for children and others in the largely underserved rural communities of central Maine.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$895,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 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 Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$37,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Art in Process: Winslow Homer, High School Students, and Creativity. The project will provide intensive learning experiences for high school students about Winslow Homer, the role of his studio in his career, and his creative artistic process.

Seal Bay Festival
Vinalhaven, ME
$7,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival of concerts and workshops featuring American chamber music. Repertoire will include works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Laura Kaminsky, Anna Weesner, and Samuel Zyman.

Telling Room
Portland, ME
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support free, intensive, school-day and after-school workshops ranging from four to six weeks targeting disadvantaged youth ages 8 to 18. The workshops will culminate in publication of an anthology of student work and a public reading.

University of Maine (on behalf of Maine Folklife Center)
Orono, ME
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Maine Song and Story Sampler. The project will develop a website with downloadable audio and video recordings of traditional songs and stories from the Maine Folklife Collection.


Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $1,055,800

 
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