Thank You!

Thanks to City Manager Joe Gray, Asst. City Managers Pat Finnigan, Anita LaChance, Communications Director Nicole Clegg, City Department Heads and City Councilors. They’ve each saved the day on more than one occasion. Special thanks to Mayor Jill Duson for understanding from the beginning that art, creativity and government belonged together and working to make it happen. Thanks to Rachel Talbot Ross who got Art At Work to the City of Portland. Thanks to Judy Rosen and Sonia Bean, to Al, John, Kim, Fazardi, Pavel, Yuri and many of the 1400 city employees whose advice and assistance have helped make this project go well. Particular thanks to the City’s Diversity Team who helped make the Police Poetry Reading and Civic Dialogues a success. Team-thanks to the individuals who donated time to keep Terra Moto and Art At Work on track: Cindy Cochran, CPA, Solange Kellerman, bookkeepers Penne Burrows and Bev Dacey, our web guys from Shoeless Design and Maine College of Art Printmaking Senior Edwige Charlot for her brilliance, labor and heart. The support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation has made this project possible. The work in Portland is not only the beginning of a national initiative, but part of a growing network of organizations and individuals working in the nexus of art and social justice. Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Arts and Culture program, under the leadership of Claudine Brown, is playing a key role in bringing artists together around the U.S. to strategize and strengthen the work they do with communities. Local support is critical to the success of a community-based project. Art At Work thanks the Maine Community Foundation, Center for Cultural Exchange, Maine Humanities Council and the Maine Arts Commission for their support. Thanks to Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts and the Kellogg Foundation.