Program

Agency-wide Projects: ARP-Organizations (Public-related)

Period of Performance

10/1/2021 - 9/30/2022

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)


A More Perfect Union in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine

FAIN: ZPP-283183-22

Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning, and Labor (Lewiston, ME 04240-7740)
Audrey K. Thomson (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2021)
Rachel Ferrante (Project Director: December 2021 to September 2023)

Development of an exhibition and public programming exploring nineteenth- and twenty-first-century immigration to Lewiston and Auburn, Maine.

Two waves of immigrants to Lewiston-Auburn, first from Canada and Europe, and then from Africa, weave a cloth of strength, resilience and creativity in this former textile community.