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Say hello to Vanessa Anspaugh (@vanessaanspaugh), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Funerals for the Ocean:⁠
Funerals for The Ocean is a participation, performance series inspired by climate activist happenings addressing the global climate crisis, rising sea levels and a rapidly dying oceanic ecosystem. Ritualistic gestures and choreographies of memorial and gratitude are intended to be felt and witnessed as we explore the material of salt; that which remains when ocean water evaporates. In Funerals for the Ocean, audience participants, alongside hidden plant performers are quietly guided to enact/perform a variety of carefully choreographed rituals intended to provide space and bodily gestures for grieving what we have lost while also paying homage to what has been.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Vanessa and co. for the latest updates on Funerals for the Ocean!⁠
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Say hello to Rachel Alexandrou (@giantdaughter), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Foraged Feast:⁠
Foraged Feast is a series of performative, foraged meals. Through an open call process, three participating artists and one lead artist will work together to harvest, process and create three foraged feast pop-ups. The feasts will be offered free to the public and will feature visual art made by the artists inspired by the process of gathering local edible flora.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Rachel for the latest updates on Foraged Feast!⁠
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Say hello to Sarah Loftus (@potpiechimichanga, @michel.droge), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Farm Tools Project:⁠
The project engages Maine farmers in a visual exploration of the use of hand tools on small farms working outside of industrial agriculture and the exchanges that take place between farmers and the land. We're traveling around the state with a portable, hand-built cyanotype kit (an old form of non-toxic photography relying on water and sunlight) and creating images with people in their fields, barns, and greenhouses and talking with farmers about their practices, the significance of the tools they choose to use, and how they engage with the earth to produce and harvest food.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Sarah and co. for the latest updates on Farm Tools Project!⁠
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Say hello to Thalassa Raasch (@thalassaraasch), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Monson Telephone Co.:⁠
Monson Telephone Co. recreates a telephone booth that previously existed outside of the former “Appalachian Station” building. The booth showcases short stories and audio compositions featuring different aspects of life in Monson, Maine. Capturing the town at a moment of great change, this storytelling project gathers the recollections of lifelong residents alongside the impressions of newcomers. At any time of day or night, visitors are welcome to dial codes to access the different vignettes. New collections of curated audio are regularly introduced to the booth. Stories are archived, alongside additional visual materials, on a website.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Thalassa and co. for the latest updates on Monson Telephone Co.!⁠
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Say hello to Alexandra Cuadros (@pendeja.studio, @thiccpendeja), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Pendeja Studio: the Workshop Series:⁠
Pendeja Studio is a multidisciplinary creative alliance whose mission is to facilitate representation for first-generation immigrants, black & brown people, & underrepresented & underserved communities. We accomplish this by using our platform to support & create space for their expression, & invite artists from the community to practice & showcase their skills & talents as official collaborators.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Alexandra for the latest updates on Pendeja Studio: the Workshop Series!⁠
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Say hello to Darren Ranco (@openwatersmaine), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what he has to say about the project, In Kinship Archives & Performance Fellowship:⁠
What possibilities emerge when we look at social repair and environmental care as public, creative acts? We are seeking funding to support a transdisciplinary performance resulting from a year of cross-discipline research and dialogue. Following the tradition of Wabanaki Guiding, the In Kinship Archives & Performance Fellowship connects Native and non-Native people to place through experience, language, and story. Over the course of a year, four In Kinship Fellows along with fellowship co-creators and guides, are collaborating to create a participatory performance work that addresses ecological recovery and social justice.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Jennie and co. for the latest updates on In Kinship Archives & Performance Fellowship!⁠
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Say hello to Dana Hopkins (@bareportland), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, [Storage]: An Installation + Performance Experiment:⁠
[Storage] is an interactive performance/installation created by a team of artists working across identity and medium to tell a story of an abandoned storage unit and Portland’s changing socioeconomic landscape.⁠
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Site-specific performance collaborative Bare Portland scoured local auctions before acquiring The Unit, piled high with items someone stowed away. Our year-long process is informed by The Unit’s contents and stakeholders in the self-storage industry. The culminating public performance/installation will engage community members in an ethnography of stuff: a story of place and displacement, possession and dispossession, permanence and transience, and of what beyond memory we pack away.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Dana and co. for the latest updates on [Storage]: An Installation + Performance Experiment!⁠
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Say hello to Hillary Savage (@hilldawgs, @banditry_press), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Banditry Press:⁠
Banditry Press is a letterpress printshop under development on Vinalhaven island. Kindling Fund resources would assist in the shop build-out, restoration of the 1920’s letterpress and a residency wherein artists/activists working on the front-lines of resistance movements would be invited to the island for nourishment and regeneration. We will print posters, signs and pamphlets that will be carried back for use in direct actions for social change alongside printworks for local community engagement. The paradox of the island’s isolation is fertile ground for mutual exchange and can tether both needs: empowering a rural voice and providing retreat for front-line activists.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Hillary and co. for the latest updates on Banditry Press!⁠
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Say hello to Dan Hawkins, Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what he has to say about the project, Ghost Line:⁠
Maine has the highest percentage of second homes of any state in the US, with over 5 times the national average. Its 5,000 miles of coastline attracts 36 million visitors each year. There are 97 towns bordering the Atlantic Ocean in Maine. As fisheries and industries migrate, many of these towns have ceded their waterfronts to tourism-based development, and the coastline of Maine has become more and more unaffordable for Mainers. Those who do own waterfront property often live elsewhere, spending a few weeks each year in Maine; the coastline has become a ghost line.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Dan for the latest updates on Ghost Line!⁠
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Say hello to Pamela A. Moulton (@pamela_moulton), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, The Forest: an interactive multi-sensory environment in a Retirement Community:⁠
“The Forest” is the creation of the first multi-sensory immersive environment based in a retirement community. Pamela Moulton and her multi-disciplinary team, will develop this fanciful forest installation. Pamela will lead a series of intergenerational workshops where College and High school students partnered with Elders from the Cedars will create elements for the sense-driven installation. Casco Bay HS students in tandem with elders will create a multi-sensory environment in their school, during a one week intensive. The Project will culminate with a yarn-bombing at both the Cedars and CBHS. The Cedars will welcome other retirement communities to visit “The Forest”.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Pamela and co. for the latest updates on The Forest: an interactive multi-sensory environment in a Retirement Community!⁠
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Say hello to Sarah Sockbeson, Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, At the intersection of Tradition and Innovation:⁠
To create a series of 2-3 pieces with the intention of pushing the boundaries of what is considered "a basket". Utilizing a foundation of culturally traditional techniques, I aspire to infuse new elements, materials & innovations to create a contemporary amalgamation, what I’d refer to as “modern-traditional Native art.” With primary focuses on sustainability and pushing the boundaries, I’ll reexamine and incorporate materials that are outside of the box, overlooked, or discarded, to create new and exiting works in the hopes of challenging or dispelling narrow definitions/ perceptions/ labeling of Native American art, and present works in new contexts.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Sarah for the latest updates on At the intersection of Tradition and Innovation!⁠
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Say hello to Asata Radcliffe (@fazerad), Kindling Fund 2020 grantee!⁠
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Here's what she has to say about the project, Black Guards Living Installation:⁠
This installation is a replicated representation of how the Black Guards lived while stationed along the railways of Maine during WWII. Visitors of the installation can enter a historic boxcar set with personal and historical military objects that tell the story of these Black army soldiers that protected the railways of Maine.⁠
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Be sure to follow us and Asata and co. for the latest updates on Black Guards Living Installation!⁠
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