The mission of the Maine Alliance for Arts Education is to encourage and strengthen educational excellence in visual art, music, theater, dance, and writing in all Maine schools and communities.
Carol Trimble was selected as MAAE's executive director in the fall of 2001 after serving for two years as director of MAAE’s then Hancock County Regional Office. Trimble also serves on the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Maine at Augusta where she teaches courses in writing, public speaking, and “The Arts of Hancock County.” As a certified teacher, she has taught students of most grade levels from preschool through high school. She has written more than 20 Teacher’s Guides to Performing Arts and numerous articles, and she presents workshops for schools, organizations, and artists throughout Maine and nationally. She represents New England on the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network's National Leadership Committee.
Susan Potters, who has directed MAAE’s high school artist residency program, BCTA, since its inception in 2000, had first-hand experience with arts integration in the classroom when she incorporated drama into her secondary school English and history classes as a teacher in NYC, before she came to Maine. Until she moved to Southern Maine from Bangor in 2003 Susan directed MAAE regional activities in the Penquis region, where she was also involved in the Bangor arts scene as director of Bangor’s Arts Council and as president of the Arcady Music Festival. Besides her work for MAAE Susan currently serves on the Maine Arts Commission’s Arts in Education Committee.
Caroline Budney, who worked for MAAE last year as an Americorps VISTA, is in her second year of working for MAAE. She has stepped into the new Special Projects Coordinator position and assists other staff in their programs, manages new programs such as Poetry Out Loud, and continues to do grants research. She graduated from Bowdoin in 2003 with a major in art history and studio art. Prior to her work with MAAE, she worked in Boston art galleries, taught at summer arts programs, and worked for the Maine Arts Commission.
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The Maine Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE) was founded in 1973 and incorporated in 1980. Through a creative network of teachers, parents, artists, organizations, and community supporters, the Alliance works at the state level and in local communities to strengthen educational excellence in visual art, music, dance, drama, and creative writing. MAAE is a member of the national Kennedy Center Alliances for Arts Education Network, which has recognized the MAAE for its exemplary work on the local level and in advocacy.
MAAE has created innovative regional initiatives, encouraging arts education in many of Maine’s most isolated and under-served communities. These pilot efforts have launched two highly successful arts programs: LINC—Arts, which matches talented high-school students with mentoring arts professionals; and Building Community Through the Arts, a high-school residency program which received its fourth round of funding from the NEA this year. Both programs teach the arts in ways that encourage imagination, inspiring students to purse their dreams and achieve their best, while helping schools to improve arts education in the curriculum.
The Board of Directors of the MAAE includes arts education advocates from communities around the state, educators, arts specialists, school administrators, business people, legislators, and advisors from the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Department of Education. MAAE's Honorary Chair is First Lady Karen Baldacci. The MAAE staff includes Executive Director Carol Trimble, Education Director Susan Potters, Special Projects Coordinator Caroline Budney, full-time AmericorpsVISTA volunteer Hilary Cline, and others contracted for specific tasks such as program coordination and bookkeeping.
Chair, Rich Abramson, Readfield
Vice Chair, Elizabeth Watson, Portland
Secretary, Lucy Rioux, Gardiner
Treasurer, Kathy Leggett, Washburn
Rick Ash, Rockport
Campbell Badger, Portland
Beverly Broyles, Kennebunk
Emily Cain, Orono
Carmel Collins, Bridgton
Kathy Deupree, Camden
Michael Edgecomb, Spruce Head
Joan Hamann, Greene
John Jenkins, Lewiston
Linnett Hannah, Litchfield
Linda McCann, Winslow
Abby McCann, Winslow
Patricia Messler, Rockport
Linda Nichols Phillips, Readfield
Hannah Pingree, North Haven
Stephen Wicks, Orono
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