LEWISTON — L/A Arts has been awarded two grants recently to fund two upcoming projects

Enterprise Community Partners donated $5,000 for the project “Activate LA,” focused on activating empty indoor/outdoor art space and expanding outreach to connect with a wider community.

The other grant, from Healthy Neighborhoods, will fund a collaborative project with Tree Street Youth to develop an art gallery at their location, give young artists professional development and train them as Art Walk docents.

Enterprise Community Partners supports affordable housing and other community development initiatives nationwide, with a strong interest in supporting equitable design and transportation solutions.

“The funding from Healthy Neighborhoods affords us an excellent opportunity to work more closely with Tree Street Youth in an area of activity of great interest to both organizations — the crossroads of the arts and youth development,” Director Louise Rosen said. “And, we are extremely proud to have been awarded this Enterprise grant. It’s a national grant-making organization. New England is not part of their priority service area, which speaks well for the concept and the application. Among other things, we’ll be translating our program information into multiple languages and working on greater distribution of those materials.”

FMI: laarts.org, 207-782-7228, [email protected].