Waterville arts group named developer of yr

Rendering of the Paul J. Schupf Arts Heart on Essential Road in Waterville. Submitted picture

WATERVILLE — Central Maine Progress Council lately offered its annual 2022 Developer of the 12 months award to Waterville Creates, a nonprofit arts group. The award was offered at Central Maine Progress Council’s annual assembly, sponsored by Central Maine Motors, Kennebec Financial savings Financial institution, MaineGeneral Well being, and Huhtamaki.

Waterville Creates gives year-round arts programming via its three programming divisions, Waterville Opera Home, Maine Movie Heart, and Ticonic Gallery & Studios, based on a information launch from the council.

The group will proceed to strengthen Waterville’s inventive arts all through the state of Maine with the completion of the Paul J. Schupf Arts Heart, a transformative neighborhood hub for visible and performing arts, movie, and humanities schooling. Developed in partnership with Colby School, the $18 million, 32,000-square-foot facility will probably be open to the general public in December and can function three movie screening rooms, two galleries, a clay studio, an arts schooling classroom, a rehearsal house, open house for the general public to assemble, a restaurant that includes Bixby Chocolate Café, and an enclosed glass skywalk going through Waterville’s Castonguay Sq. and connecting to the Waterville Opera Home.

“The completion of the Paul J. Schupf Arts Heart symbolizes a dedication to neighborhood revitalization, the inventive economic system, and ensures arts programming will probably be accessible for all; reimagining the historic neighborhood asset right into a neighborhood hub is consultant of Colby School and Waterville Creates’ dynamic imaginative and prescient and dedication to retain Waterville’s distinctive historical past whereas supporting the revitalization of Essential Road,” mentioned Central Maine Progress Council Director of Planning, Innovation, and Financial Growth Garvan Donegan. “Initiatives such because the Paul J. Schupf Artwork Heart convey communities collectively, assist the creation and retention of the world’s workforce, and lay the groundwork for cementing Waterville as a vacation spot for high quality arts all through the state and New England as a complete.”

Established in 2014 by a gaggle of native organizations enthusiastic about strengthening the humanities via considerate collaboration, Waterville Creates merged with Frequent Road Arts in 2016 and with Waterville Opera Home and Maine Movie Heart in 2018. Beneath this consolidated construction, the group gives year-round programming, together with theater productions, dwell music live shows, and hosts the annual Maine Worldwide Movie Pageant, a 10-day movie pageant that showcases almost 100 movies from a few of Maine, New England’s, and America’s most progressive unbiased filmmakers.

“We’re so grateful to the neighborhood for each their longstanding assist of the humanities in Waterville and for his or her contributions to this transformative venture that facilities the humanities as core to our metropolis’s identification and our ongoing revitalization efforts. We will’t wait to welcome everybody to our new residence within the Paul J. Schupf Artwork Heart this December,” mentioned Shannon Haines, president + CEO of Waterville Creates. “This new constructing will probably be open and lively twelve months a yr, so we’re particularly enthusiastic about the way in which by which our programming will contribute to the vibrancy of the downtown and actually function a beacon of sunshine via the darker winter months.”

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