Leonard and Renee Minsky Fund for Arts Education

2022 Grants

  • Alton Elementary School, for grades 2-5 to design and plant a perennial garden: $1,000
  • Bangor School Department, for Bangor third graders at Fruit Street School to create a moveable architectural mural of Bangor's building: $1,000
  • Beals Elementary School, for grades 3-6 to create a place-centered diorama of natural materials for display at the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center: $1,000
  • Indian Island School, for grade 5 students to learn about quillwork history and create quillwork necklaces: $1,000
  • Whiting Village School, to bring traditional New England music into the Whiting Village School: $1,000

2020 Grants

  • Asa C. Adams Elementary School, Orono, for a visit from author and illustrator Matt Tavares as part of "Dream Big: What is Your Spacewalk?": $1,000
  • Bangor School Department, for 3rd Graders at Fruit Street, Downeast, Abraham Lincoln, Fourteenth Street, and Vine Street schools to participate in feltmaking with Sandi Cirillo: $1,000
  • Bay Ridge Elementary, Cutler, for K-8 students to work on an informational writing, printmaking, digital imaging, and bookmaking project at varying grade levels: $1,000
  • Cherryfield Elementary School, for visits from theater and music specialist: $1,000
  • Lubec Consolidated School, for K-8, Lubec Elementary students to work with Children's Stage Adventure to put on The Prince and the Pauper: $1,000
  • Princeton Elementary School, for West African drumming with Sayon Camara: $1,000
  • RSU 22, for students at George B. Weatherbee Elementary School, Hampden, to work with two theater educators from Penobscot Theater in celebration of Maine Day: $1,400