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

$7,500

Columbia Falls