The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Expansion Arts Fund is accepting proposals from nonprofits for grants of up to $10,000 for certain arts organizations and arts-based programs.

Those Maine programs must serve rural communities and/or Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, particularly in areas with limited access to the arts.

Recent grantees include:

• Maine Forestry Museum, Rangeley, to promote, expand and preserve the folk art traditions of clogging, bluegrass/folk music, and childhood oral lore;

• Our Town Belfast, to add artwork to the city’s downtown crosswalks, increasing visibility and safety while creating visual interest; and

• University of Maine Foundation, Hudson Museum, Orono, to create and promote a virtual Wabanaki Winter Market, including educational content and a Wabanaki Artist Directory.

The deadline for grant applications is Sept. 15. An online application, guidelines and a list of recent grants are available at mainecf.org.

For more information about the Maine Expansion Arts Fund, call MaineCF Senior Program Officer Leslie Goode at 207-412-2002 or email [email protected].