Over $88,000 supporting 13 projects across Maine
2025’s Major Grant awardees include a Black and Indigenous maritime history project, writing and storytelling workshops, and a community refugee music project.
Maine Maritime Museum
Re|Sounding: Recovering Maine’s Black and Indigenous Maritime History
Bath
$7,500
Buck Memorial Library
Tell Your Story-Write Your Story-Share Your Story
Bucksport
$2,983
Trans Poetics Archive
Transcendence: A Trans Poetry Festival
Portland
$7,500
Atlantic Black Box
The Walk for Historical & Ecological Recovery (WHERE2025) Facilitation & Education Coordinators
Portland
$7,485
Safe Voices
Safe Voices Survivor Storytellers Project
Auburn
$7,500
Abbe Museum
Wabanaki Veterans’ Interactive Community History
Bar Harbor
$7,453
ShelfLife Project
ShelfLife Project
Cape Elizabeth
$7,500
The Hill Arts
Gospel Messiah: A Refugee Oratorio (Community Refugee Music Project)
Portland
$7,250
Eastport Arts Center
Downeast Storytellers
Eastport
$5,000
Indigo Arts Alliance
Deconstructing Boundaries Symposium – Tending to Communities
Portland
$7,500
OUT Maine
Read the Rainbow
Rockland
$7,500
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Inc
Feminist Connection Project
Waterville
$5,893
Wild Blueberry Heritage Center
Shining a Light: An Indigenous Perspective on Wild Blueberry History, Culture and Art