Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts

2022 Grants

ArtWaves, to sponsor a handworks festival in 2023: $7,930
Eastport Arts Center, to provide advanced workshops: $10,000
H.O.M.E., to support stitchery and quilt programming and projects: $10,000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, to hire an archivist assistant and contract with an oral history documentarian: $10,000
Monson Arts, for a four-day retreat for Wabanaki basket makers: $9,400
Schoodic Arts for All, to introduce a fused-glass workshop: $10,000
Tear Cap Workshops, to expand its craft education programs, artisan workshops, makerspace program, and community-building efforts: $10,000
Trenton Elementary School, for a handcrafts festival: $9,500
Virginia Project, to provide hand-skill classes for school field trips: $4,180
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition, to preserve and continue traditional Wabanaki arts: $10,000
Waterfall Arts, for a glassblowing class for younger and older people: $10,000
Ceramic Arts Incorporated, for programming and maintaining affordable fees for artists: $2,900
Wendell Gilley Museum of Bird Carving, to teach wood carving: $10,000

From donor-advised funds:

Women for Healthy Rural Living, to host a weekly craft circle and traditional handcraft workshops: $2,675

2021 Grants

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport, to upgrade and update the center’s aging IT infrastructure to better support current operations and advance new online initiatives such as the free video library: $7,500
Cobscook Institute, Lubec, to sustainably expand inclusive traditional handcrafts programs for the long term by investing in strategic planning, program development, and improved operational systems: $10,000
Eastport Arts Center, for general operations that sustain its mission: $10,000
H.O.M.E. Inc., Orland, to purchase supplies for the Homeless Shelter Quilt Project to introduce people experiencing homelessness to traditional Maine crafts: $9,531
Main Street Art Studio, Inc., Sangerville, to hire professional handcrafters to instruct volunteers to teach future craft courses: $7,500
Maine Media College, Rockport, to expand the Book Arts Program to include paper-making for use in making art books: $5,450
Monson Arts, to support a four-day retreat and planning session for 12 of Maine's experienced and emerging furniture makers to develop ideas for new work: $9,700
Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, for a series of workshops spotlighting local Maine traditional fiber arts with hands-on and historical components: $8,220
Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, to offer educational opportunities in traditional handcrafts: $10,000
Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, to expand the StudioWorks Residency Program to include four handcraft artists with educational opportunities to learn handcraft techniques and traditions: $10,000
Trenton Elementary School, to start an annual school Maine Arts Festival to introduce students to traditional and native handcrafts and connect students to the local artist community: $10,000
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, to safely reopen in 2021-2022 with expanded programming in new year-round and fully accessible studio constructed during the pandemic year: $10,000

From donor-advised funds:

Houlton Band of Maliseets, Houlton, to implement a cultural- and community-driven arts program from which future generations can benefit: $10,000

2020 Grants

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 cultural knowledge: $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