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Grant from the Kings Helps Blaze a Trail to Maine's Finest Art
The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation has awarded a $60,000 grant to the Maine Art Museum Trail, an innovative collaborative involving the state's seven major art museums, including the University of Maine Museum of Art.
The landmark project is designed to encourage public interest in cultural heritage and to stimulate visual literacy in the arts by promoting access to Maine's art museums.
Also involved are art museums at Bates, Bowdoin and Colby Colleges, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Ogunquit Museum of American Art and Portland Museum of Art.
The seven museums have a total of 53,000 works of art and attract more than 380,000 visitors annually.
In the Maine Art Museum Trail partnership, the state's art museums have created a comprehensive public relations and marketing effort to make the wealth of Maine's art museums accessible to a wide range of visitors. Included in the promotion is a guide and map of the art museums.