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PHOTO: Tear Cap Workshops in Hiram, was awarded $10,000 to expand its craft education workshops and more. (Submitted photo)
ELLSWORTH — Area arts and theater, as well as conservation, nonprofits are among those awarded nearly $700,000 in grants across Maine from four programs administered by the Maine Community Foundation.
The Maine Expansion Arts, Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts and Maine Theater Fund awarded $472,00 grants to 59 organizations. The Maine Conservation for All program awarded $187,000 in grants to 19 organizations.
Area grant awardees are:
Tear Cap Workshops, Hiram, to expand its craft education programs, artisan workshops, makerspace program, and community-building efforts, $10,000 (Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts).
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition, to preserve and continue traditional Wabanaki arts, $10,000 (BTH) and to fund four traditional Wabanaki art workshops to further support Wabanaki artists and arts, $5,000 (MEA).
Create Norway, to increase access to free or reduced-cost arts/movement programming for youth in western Maine: $10,000 (Maine Expansion Arts)
Veterans Writing Project, to provide creative and performing arts education, and performance opportunities for veterans, family members, and the community, $10,000 (MEA).
Rangeley Friends of the Performing Arts, to retool and rebuild the Rangeley Community Chorus, $3,000 (MEA) and to support its 2023 productions, $5,000 (Maine Theater Arts).
Maine Inside Out, Lewiston, for its arts and advocacy-based leadership development programs for youth of color, $10,000 (MEA).
Gateway Community Services Maine, Lewiston, to teach BIPOC youth how to use art for community building and self-healing, $10,000 (MEA).
Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, for emerging local BIPOC artists to provide arts programs for young people, $10,000 (MEA).
United Youth Empowerment Services, Lewiston, for its youth Creator Space and to bring awareness to environmental health challenges among the immigrant and newcomer refugee communities, $10,000 (MEA).
LA Public Theatre, Lewiston, for its production of “Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World,” $5,000 (MTA).
Theater at Monmouth, Monmouth, to support strategic planning, $5,000 (MTA).
Theater Project, Brunswick, to produce “Squeeze Me!,” an original musical by Maine playwright Brian Daly, $5,000 (MTA).
Conservation for All grants invest in organizations and projects that build strong connections between people in Maine and its land and water. Area grantees include:
Friends of the Presumpscot River, Westbrook, to hire an education and outreach employee to increase the scope of its educational programming, especially for youth and immigrants, $15,000.
Kennebec Land Trust, Winthrop, to increase access to conservation land for underserved populations, $15,000.
Land in Common, Greene, to collaborate with communities directly impacted by injustice on projects that create land access for affordable housing, foodways, ecological stewardship, social transformation, joy and liberation, $15,000.
Main Street Skowhegan, to purchase a fleet of whitewater kayaks, $12,500.
Friends of L.C. Bates Museum, Fairfield, for its Inspiring Curious Young Naturalists conservation project, $2,900.
To view all recent grantees, visit mainecf.org/recent grants. The next grant cycle for all of four of the grant programs opens July 1.
