Imagination Intensive Community on MDOE site

Just announced!

2010 IIC site-York

This week the Maine Department of Education (MDOE), Maine Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE), and the Maine Arts Commission (MAC) sent a call inviting communities to apply to be recognized as an Imagination Intensive Community (IIC). The information is online at the MAAE site and at a new page devoted to the project at the MDOE site. As time passes there will be more information about the project including the 2010 IIC of Arundel, York, North Haven, Blue Hill, Deer Isle-Stonington and Camden-Rockport.

The application for applying is online at the new page. Included is the time line of the process so don’t hesitate download your application today since it is due on March 14th.

Funding for this project is from the Kennedy Center, the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Department of Education, and Bangor Savings Bank, the Imagination Intensive Communities program is in its second year of identifying and celebrating, through an open application process, those Maine communities where schools and partnering organizations of all kinds invest in the imaginative development of children and youth.