RESOURCES
Waterville Creates is pleased to offer a list of artists’ resources that include funding sources, residencies and professional development opportunities.
Kindling Fund
The Kindling Fund supports artist-organized projects that engage the public in inventive and meaningful ways. With a focus on risk and experimentation, The Kindling Fund distributes grants ranging from $1,500 – $5,000 to Maine artists. Successful projects value unconventional engagement, critical dialogue, collaboration, and create new models for presenting artists’ work. The Kindling Fund is administered by SPACE Gallery as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts’ Regional Regranting Program.
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists’ residency located in Skowhegan, Maine. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 to participate in the nine-week intensive summer program. Admissions decisions are announced in April. The School provides participants with housing, food, and studio space, and the campus offers a library, media lab, and sculpture shop, among other amenities
Hewnoaks
Magnificently situated on the eastern shore of Kezar Lake, Hewnoaks offers an extraordinary setting of inspiration and beauty. By resurrecting its art-making traditions we aim to honor its creative history and preserve its environmental integrity.
Adventurous artists and thinkers are invited to live and work at Hewnoaks from late June until mid-September each year. Residencies run from one to two weeks, depending on availability. Participants are accommodated in rustic cabins complete with basic kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms.
Hewnoaks encourages artists and curators of all backgrounds to apply. Hewnoaks does not discriminate in its programs and activities against anyone on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, ancestry, HIV status, or veteran status.
Common Field is a visual arts organizing network connecting contemporary, experimental, noncommercial artist-run and artist centered spaces and initiatives.
Common Field’s membership includes alternative art spaces, publications, digital exhibition venues, festivals, residencies, collectives, collaboratives, and individual organizers. These projects and spaces provide interdisciplinary and hybrid forms for art production, reception, and exchange.
