• 2011

Terra Moto

Portland, Maine
$100,000

Terra Moto brings creativity into civic life through performance, arts-based dialogues, and community art projects. Since 2007, the not-for-profit has focused on Art at Work, a national initiative that brings art-making projects into municipal governments.

The Arts Endowment will support a cohesive program that places multidisciplinary artists in residence in neighborhoods, creates public art, and launches a festival in Portland, Maine. Artists and facilitators will be paired with local neighborhood associations to lead arts-centered explorations of each neighborhood's history, place, identity, personal stories, and vision planning. The process will lead to a public art installation in each neighborhood, followed by a citywide festival that celebrates the neighborhoods, the art created, and the relationships built. An anticipated 55 artists, 300 neighborhood residents, and more than 2,000 community participants who come from among 32 nations will benefit from the initiative.

An East Bayside "meeting place" located in Kennedy Park, a part of Portland's Public Housing Authority, where a community mural created over 14 years ago has remained untagged. Photo by Alex Endy

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