(MATF) is a fellowship opportunity for Maine’s K-12 arts teachers (music, theater, creative writing, visual or performing arts) to design a program that provides them with the opportunity to interact with professional artists and to enhance their understanding of current techniques, activity, and thinking in their primary artistic medium.
Selected Fellows will receive up to $4,000 each, with a complementary grant of $1,000 to support post-fellowship activities. The fellowship award may be used to defray the costs of tuition and other fees, room and board, travel, purchase of materials and/or equipment for personal art-making, childcare and other relevant expenses.
Download complete 2008 guidelines.
Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship Program: 2007 Fellows
Ora Aselton
Narraguagus High School, Harrington, ME
Attend a month long program at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy. Ora will study painting from Judy Koon, landscape painter from the Art Institute of Chicago, Susana Jacobsen, visiting artist/art historian, and Lani Irwin, visiting artist/figure painter.
Michael Davis
Sherwood Heights Elementary School, Auburn, ME
Study West African drumming through a month long workshop in Senegal. Mike will learn about drumming techniques, how to build the various drums and the oral history and traditions that are an integral part of this medium.
Katherine Greene
George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, ME
Work under mentors Linda Funk, botanical illustrator, and Rebecca Gooddale, book artist to combine their specialties into unique books. After her mentorships Katie plans to further her Book Arts skills at USM’s Stone House in Freeport.
Katy Helman
Deer Isle-Stonington High School, Deer Isle, ME
Study silk screening with Dan Bouthot at Haystack, mentor with Elizabeth Busch, fiber artist, and then attend a one week externship at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Following these experiences, Katy will connect with fashion designer Lynn Blake to see how she can incorporate Katy’s fabric into her designs.
|
Vaughn McLaughlin
Caribou High School, Caribou, ME
Vaughn will be studying privately with Wycliffe Gordon for jazz trombone, and Nancy Marano for vocal jazz in New York City. He will be making trips to New York for 8 weekends over the summer to take lessons and to gain exposure to a variety of live jazz performances.
K. Barry Saunders
Sea Road School and Kennebunkport Consolidated School, Kennebunk, ME
Study advanced ear training and jazz improvisation with Michael Cain, faculty at the New England Conservatory. They will meet twice a month over the summer both in New York and Boston.
Allison Villani
Portland High School, Portland, ME
Attend the Book Arts workshop at USM’s Stone House in Freeport, and follow it up with time to create a body of work based on the new skills and techniques developed at the workshop. Allison plans to continue integrating book arts into non-arts subjects at both Portland and Deering High Schools.
Shanna Wheelock
Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec, ME
Study weaving with mentor Susan Merrill and create a cohesive series of seven 3D forms on three different looms. One of these hand-built looms will be an Earth Loom, a community arts project which will be constructed near their school for everyone to appreciate.
|
