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Monson Arts awarded grant from National Endowment for the Arts

Monson Arts has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Working In Wood. This project will engage the community by showcasing active wood and forest-based artisans in Piscataquis County, capturing and recording their work and processes. This Monson Arts project is among 1,125 projects across America totaling more […]

Davis Family Foundation awards Maine Art Gallery $15,000 grant

The Maine Art Gallery is happy to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the Davis Family Foundation for restorative work on the 1807 “Old Academy Building” at 15 Warren St. in Wiscasset, which houses the nonprofit gallery. This grant is one of several applications for funding that will be made to address […]

Maine Art Gallery receives Art Jobs Grant

The Maine Arts Commission has awarded Wiscasset’s Maine Art Gallery $8,700 in support of the Commission’s goal of strengthening the state’s creative workforce. The matching grant will enable the gallery to fund more time for the organization’s part time gallery manager from December through June as well as fees for class instructors and honorariums for […]

Maine Arts Commission offers Arts Jobs Grant to strengthen creative workforce

The Maine Arts Commission has announced two new grants to support job creation and the strengthening of the state’s creative workforce. Individual artists and nonprofit organizations are welcome to apply for an Art Jobs Grant, with maximum awards up to $15,000. All applications must be submitted to the Maine Arts Commission by Nov. 18, 2021. […]

Maine artist Reggie Burrows Hodges receives national grant

Dowling Walsh artist Reggie Burrows Hodges received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant. The Maine-based painter’s works explore storytelling and visual metaphor. His large-scale paintings — rendered in acrylic and pastel on raw canvas — explore universal subjects, such as identity, community, truth and memory and often draw inspiration from his childhood in […]