ME
Based in the heart of Portland, Maine, SPACE is a nonprofit contemporary art center featuring visual arts, live music and performance, film, lectures, community events, and more. SPACE is an organization that supports contemporary arts projects, champions artists, and encourages an open exchange of ideas. Grounded in the belief that vital communities are activated by experimentation, conversation, and camaraderie, SPACE engages a wide audience with provocative arts programming and categorydefying events. As a nexus for curious minds, we collaborate with original thinkers and invite the public to participate in the ongoing pursuit of adventurous ideas. In 2015, SPACE bought the building that housed it, preserving 30 artist studios in downtown Portland, a collective printmaking studio Pickwick Independent Press. SPACE piloted an artist residency program out of one of these studios in 2016, bringing national artists to work and participate in conversation with the cultural community of Portland.
Institution/Business Type:
Arts Center
Legal Status:
Nonprofit - Independent
Year Founded:
2002
Institution/Business Type:
Arts Center
Legal Status:
Nonprofit - Independent
Year Founded:
2002
Primary Discipline:
Multi-DisciplinaryActivities and Services:
Populations Engaged:
Geographic Reach:
Accessibility of Services:
For ASL interpretation requests please email info@space538.org, movies which are subtitled are always marked as such.
Performing Group
Date: 01/2023-12/2023
Working to present Deb Goffe's work in 2023, SPACE previously hosted her collaborator Arien Wilkerson in residence and presented Equators in 2018.
School of the Arts
Date: 06/2022-06/2023
SPACE participated in the inaugural Resurgam festival, has hosted MAMM groups, and collaborated on community programs together. MAMM awarded SPACE one of its gold record community awards for our pandemic emergency relief grantmaking efforts to musicians.
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity
Arts Center
Date: 05/2022-07/2022
Co-presented the Afrocolombian music group Kombilesa MÃ, on a 2022 tour in the US. Collaborated on a digital multi-lingual artist talk which Bombyx translated and SPACE published on its website.
Performing Group
Date: 05/2020-09/2022
SPACE operates as Vigorous Tenderness's fiscal sponsor for outside grants and has collaborated on the marketing/presentation of multiple solstice/equinox happenings outside.
Professional Associations:
Professional Associations:
Awards:
Special Designations: