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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry by, among others, Matthew Olzmann, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Tamiko Beyer, and Suzanne Parker. Titles will be chosen via editorial solicitation and three annual competitions - the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Kinereth Gensler Awards, and the Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Bangor Folk Festival
Bangor, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the American Folk Festival. Traditional artists will participate in performances, demonstrations, and workshops of regionally significant music, dance, crafts, and storytelling.

Bates College, President and Trustees of (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Cultivating Innovation and Community, a program of dance artist residencies as part of the annual Bates Dance Festival. The project will bring together leading dance figures, companies, and emerging artists such as Bebe Miller Company, Bridgman/Packer Dance, Delfos Danza Contemporanea, Nejla Yatkin/NY2Dance, dance scholar Suzanne Carbonneau, and dance consultant Kim Konikow for one- to four-week residencies to connect, create, and perform in a collaborative, supportive environment.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support New Lives/New England, a traveling exhibition and series of artists workshops focusing on communities of recent immigrants in Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut. Through the project, the importance of traditional arts in immigrant communities for maintaining identity and adapting to new homes will be highlighted.

Portland Ovations
Portland, ME
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of dance, music, and culturally specific works. Each presentation by artists such as the Joffrey Ballet, ETHEL, The Bad Plus, Imani Winds, Voices of Afghanistan, and Pablo Ziegler Trio will be accompanied by discussions, lectures, workshops, master classes, and open rehearsals.

Portland Stage Company, Inc.
Portland, ME
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of Love/Sick, a new play by John Cariani. The play consists of 10 comedic vignettes depicting atypical love stories set in slightly alternative suburban realities.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc. (aka Skowhegan)
Madison, ME
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support a residency program for emerging visual artists. Artists will be provided with a private studio and full room-and-board as well as weekly private and group critiques by a faculty of leading professional artists. Fellowships will be given to as many as five artists-in-residence and the program will benefit approximately 370 artists, students, and community members.


Number of Grants: 7          Total Amount: $180,000

 
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