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Past Kindling Fund

2023

Fish Picnic
Introducing Chloe Taylor
Analog Alley Mural Project
A CLEARING presents A POSSIBLE PRACTICE: Surrender My Softness
SICK magazine
PortL-1
Rest Within The Wake
82Parris
SPINNING WAMPUM: Reclaim-memorating the Treaty of Casco Bay as Wabanaki Practice
Portland Free Pantry Mural
BIDDO BOIIDS
Crafting Queer ME
IzumonookunI

2022

What Can I Do to Feel Better Book Tour
Turtle Dance Co-Op
Maine Musical Collectivo: Uncovering Traditions of the African Diaspora in Portland, ME
Care-Full Histories
A Tincture of Time
Tender Table
Staycation Collective
Over Here
Munay Garden
Loquat
Gem City Movement
GalaxSea: A Voyage into the Bioluminescent Night
Forcefield
Childish Books
Belonging

2020

The Forest
In Kinship Archives & Performance Fellowship
[Storage]: An Installation + Performance Experiment
Ghost Line
Farm Tools Project
Monson Telephone Co.
Pendeja Studio
Ro-He-Ge & Psychic Sounds
Daily Path
Black Guards Living Installation
Banditry Press
At the Intersection of Tradition and Innovation
Plastic Upcycler
Foraged Feast
Funerals for the Ocean

2019

We Wear the Same Clothes Every Winter
Surface First Tilts West: An Outdoor Experiential Exhibition
CHATTERMARK
ICELAND×2017
The Coast Walk
FUTURE BRIDGES
Wash and Fold Press
The First Coast
HESPER
The Apohadion Theater
Visual Tensions*
The Number of Inches Between Them
The Movies
Wilt Magazine
New Fruit
Re-Past: Remembering Malaga
MEMORY
Printers Without Margins Fellowship Program
The Chart
Orbis Editions
The Institute for American Art
INFLUX
A Shared Space: Lewiston
Portland Mural Initiative
The Homemade Exchange: Collections of Home
UNPACK
The Fruition of the Year
The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Documentary
Exhibition Catalogue for Hole History Show: Origins of the American Style Donut
Spaceship for Spaceship Earth
“Ambergris” – Mining The Net Yard for the Roots of Addiction & New Models of Sustainable Fishing: A Multimedia Environmental Installation
Portland Brick
95 Percent: Introducing the Minority to the Majority
Interstices
The Apohadion Film Exhibition Grant
Bus Stop Stories
Chasing Light
Project Room
Giving Voice
Satellite Space
Going For It: An Experimental Amateur Talent Show
Maine to Dadaab
New System Exhibitions
Galen Koch: Lubec Sound Walk, 2019 Grantee
A Possible Practice
Durational Devices
Artist In Residence at Doublet SHED
Cathedral
Maine Center for Blah Blah Blah (MCBBB)
Emotional Value Auction
The Village Canoe
The Chart 2018: Equity & Cultural Care

💥 Wanna start something new? The Kindling Fund awards project grants ranging from $3,000-$7,000 to Maine-based artists of all career levels — apply by November 24th!