Annual Report 2014
ANNUAL REPORT 2014
Dear Friends,
Mayo Street Arts is now in it’s fifth year. We thank you all for your continued support of our programs and hope you will find them to be unique, engaging, and worthwhile activities that bring many different people together for good reasons.
Our Visual and Performing Arts Programs include over 150 events each year like art exhibits, International music concerts, puppet theater performances, kids concerts, and dance performances.
2014 brought the opportunity to enhance our performance space. A mural by artist Pat Corrigan brought our theater proscenium to life, and we dedicated a votive ship to the Brooks Family Foundation in honor of their great generosity to Mayo Street Arts and the people of East Bayside and Greater Portland. We are nearly finished renovating the former choir loft into a balcony seating area. The new design improves acoustics and sightlines, allows for a more flexible performance space for theater, dance, and youth classes, and brings our event seating from 85 to 115 audience members per event.
Though Portland is known for its vibrant art, cultural, and culinary offerings, youths in East Bayside and other pockets of Greater Portland have limited opportunities to benefit from these qualities due to economic, geographic, and cultural barriers.
At MSA our local youths engage with professional visual and performing art instructors in unique learning opportunities in a neighborhood center that is positive, safe, and fun.
This year we are launching the MSA Creator’s Circle, a giving membership for individuals who have made contributions of over $300 to MSA’s annual fund. We hope that by acknowledging these supporters with this new level of giving we can grow our support base to a more sustaining level over the next five years. We will continue to seek grant support for programs for Community and Youth, and Performing Arts Programs.
So thank you all for being a part of Mayo Street Arts. Your help has made a huge difference. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Blainor Mcgough
Executive/Artistic Director, Mayo Street Arts
MSA Board of Directors
David Cimato, Chair
Megan Grumbling, Vice Chair
Jan Piribek
Myron Beasley
Hayden Anderson
Brian Arlet
Blainor Mcgough
Advisory Board
Annie Wadleigh
June Fitzpatrick
Deidre Nice
Glenn Morin
Bill Milliken
Staff
Erika Clark-Jensen, Program Associate
Lauren Fleury, House Manager
Performances/Exhibits/Events
Throughout 2014 MSA presented many events, classes and exhibits, ranging from puppet shows to live music performances to swing dance classes. Events continue to grow with over 2,000 attendees during 2014.
Youth Programs
MSA provides classes and opportunities for children between the ages of 6 and 16, focusing on underserved immigrant youths in the East Bayside and Greater Portland communities. Classes met once a week and were free for youth from neighborhood public housing. Hundreds of underserved youths attended puppet theater shows and kids concerts this Spring and Summer. We welcomed over 1,000 students in 2014 to our programs.
Club Hip Hop – 300 students
Music Club – 95 students
Artist Mentorships – 24 Students
Puppet Shows and Kids Concerts – 872
Partners
LearningWorks
MaineStay
The Art Department
Portland Community Policing
Portland Housing Study Center
Portland Conservatory of Music
Portland Youth Dance
Maine College of Art
East Bayside Neighborhood Organization
Denmark Arts
Northern New Hampshire Arts Alliance
Finances 2014
Income
Grants $96,921.00
Individual Contributions $14,146
Ticket Sales & Rentals $61,050.63
Total $172,117.63
Expense
Artist Fees $33,715.59
Program Delivery $81,692.78
Licensing & Insurance $4,756.88
Building Repairs & Maintenance $22,932.71
Utilities $9,961.48
Total $153,061.44
2014 Grantors
Visual & Performing Arts
Brooks Family Foundation – $5,000
The Cricket Foundation – $10,000
Programs for Community and Youth
Beim Foundation $18,500
Virginia Somers Hodgkins Foundation – $10,000
Anderson-Nygaard Fund of the Maine Community Foundation – $2,000
Horizon Foundation, Inc – $10,000
General Support
Brooks Family Foundation – $5,000
Maine Arts Commission – $4,021
Choir Loft Restoration Project
The Quimby Family Foundation – $22,400
Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust – $10,000
Individual Donors and Members.
Thanks to all of you who give to Mayo Street Arts – we appreciate each and every one of you for your generosity. We strive to keep this list updated – bust occasionally we make a mistake. If we have omitted something, please let us know so we can make corrections.
Creator’s Circle
Charter Members $300+
Cherie Wendelken & Jeb Brooks
Dan Oleary & Kathy Bouchard
Leslie Anderson & Danton Nygaard
Mary Allen Lindemann/Coffee By Design
Donna Roggenthein and Ronald Leeking
Blainor McGough & Brian Arlet
Myron Beasley
Hayden & Meredith Anderson
Cyrus Hagge
Yemaya St. Clair
$150+
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$75+
| Nancy Fox | Caroline Loupe |
| Rainer Maas | Carolyn May |
| Kelly McConnell | Cullen McGough |
| Bob McKillop | Robert Montgomery |
| Frank Pierobello | Jan Piribeck |
| Elizabeth Reny | Robert Rohman |
| Elena Schmidt | Emily Simons |
| Edward Swain | Betsy & Steve Tesh |
| Philip Thompson |
$35+
| Andrès Abreu | Julia Adams |
| Jim Alberty | David An |
| Amy Anderson | Krista Aronson |
| Lauren Ashwell | Celina R Azevedo |
| Zane Baker | Peter Bals |
| Ian Bannon | Zack Barowitz |
| Kristen Bartlett | Elizabeth Berg |
| Jennifer Claster | Rachel Conly |
| Lauren Costa | Linda & Bill Deetjen |
| Carl Dimow | Donna Doughten |
| Rich Entel | David & Sam EthridgeSusan FeketyOwen & Audrey GrumblingKara Haupt
Chuck & Enes Henegar Ayumi Horie Sarah Lathrop Libby Marcus & Davis Robinson Ms. Caroline Losneck Bill Minkowitz Frank Pandolfo Peter Bass & Lin Lisberger Patti Poole David Roberts Josh Rubin John & Kristen Scarcelli Susan Shiko Joyce Sobus James Spear Nancy Thompson Julia Whyel Kirsten Wunder Jay York |
| Beth GorskiPat HagerLarry & Alice HaydenJacob Hoffman
Julia Kirtland Christina Leddy Chelsea Livingston Erin McCall Robert McIntire Dugan Murphy David Pence Mike Petit Amy Reuter Dylan Rohman Andrew Sawyer Robert & Sally Schaible Lizz Sinclair William, Alicia, & Wesley Ethridge Emily Thielmann Mark Tipton Mr. Frank Turek Chris Wright |
Up to $35
| Mary & Lonnie Floyd | Arthur Gaffar |
| Markos Miller | Elizabeth Mortati |
| Bob Murray | Michael Parent |
| James Rohman | Magili Quinn |
| Carolyn Treat | Kay Sullivan |
| Philip Walter |