The Maine Community Foundation recently awarded thirteen grants totaling $112,807 through its Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts Fund. The fund’s goal is to support projects and organizations that promote traditional handcrafts throughout Maine, including fiber arts, ceramics, basketry, jewelry, glass arts, woodwork, leather, and traditional Native American handcrafts.
The 2020 grant awards include:
Artisan Lab, Gouldsboro, to build an Entrepreneurial Incubator with handcraft-based, experiential-learning programs enabling courage, capacity, competence and resilience: $10,000
Atlantic Challenge Foundation Inc., Rockland, to continue to strengthen boatbuilding instruction and apprentice programs: $9,000
Cobscook Community Learning Center, Lubec, to offer immersive experiences in traditional handcrafts in a 2021 celebration of the greater Cobscook Bay region: $10,000
Community School, Mount Desert, to connect local woodworkers with Community School students and the greater community through place-based workshops, along with growing a traditional tool library: $9,000
Cultural Resources Inc., Rockport, to support the Wabanaki Arts Mentorship Program, an intergenerational teaching program of traditional crafts and culturalknowledge: $10,000
Downeast Roots, Milbridge, to offer workshops and public lectures about traditional handcrafts specific to the Downeast Maine area for its annual Downeast Roots Festival: $8,750
Eastport Arts Center, to expand workshops to include handcrafts for healing in these hard times, promoting wellness for all ages: $9,982
In Her Presence, Portland, to create a post-pandemic strategy for organizational growth, including a network of sewing and supporting seamstresses: $5,000
Nibezun, Passadumkeag, to provide a two-week traditional birchbark canoe building workshop: $8,000
Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, for Programs of the Future, presenting traditional handcrafts in an online and pandemic-safe format: $10,000
University of Maine Foundation, Orono, to create resource units on Wabanaki traditional art forms, integrating Hudson Museum online offerings for remote learning into K-12 curriculum and providing a workshop for educators: $10,000
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, to equip new studio and studio annex buildings with tools and materials that support year-round ceramics arts programming: $4,000
Wendell Gilley Museum of Bird Carving, Southwest Harbor, to expand the museum’s virtual programming and to teach the craft of bird carving to a wider audience by providing bird carving kits for families to use at home: $9,075
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