RESOURCES
Waterville Creates is pleased to offer a list of artists’ resources that include funding sources, residencies and professional development opportunities.
Ticket to Ride
The Ticket to Ride program provides funding to defray the cost of travel for Maine schools wishing to visit Maine arts based venues and events as part of a well-rounded curriculum. The goals of the trip should support student learning and be aligned with the Maine Learning Results Visual and/or Performing Arts standards.
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.
Joseph A. Fiore Art Center
The mission of the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm is to actively connect the creative worlds of farming and art making.
Historically, artists have celebrated the beauty and richness of the American landscape. Our purpose is to continue and evolve the dialogue between human and environment within the context of our current culture and time. We do this through exhibitions and public educational events, through research and development of new farming practices and by hosting residencies for artists on a working farm.
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
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.
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation provides resources for artists, engages with community and promotes the legacy of the founding artists, Joan Beauregard and John David Ellis through its artist residency program and by providing fellowships in the visual arts. For more information about the Foundation visit ellis-beauregardfoundation.org and the Foundation’s facebook page.