The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded grants to Bates College and the Alice James Poetry Cooperative in Farmington.

The Bates College grant of $20,000 will allow summer dance festival troupes to stay in town for the duration of the festival to participate in workshops and attend community events.

The $24,000 award to the poetry cooperative will support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from three annual competitions.

The NEA has awarded a total of $99,000 to six Maine agencies in its latest round of funding.

The other grants are:

• $10,000 to support the 40th anniversary season of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Brunswick and the commissioning of new works;

• $25,000 to support a three-tiered approach for the development of new work at the Portland Stage Company;

• $10,000 to support the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s production of “Back to the River – a Penobscot River Tour;”

• $10,000 to support a production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” at the Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor.

The grants were announced by U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

“Art and artistic expression are a vital component to flourishing communities across Maine,” the senators said in a joint statement.

“These NEA grants will help nurture our state’s creative community from the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival to the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, and enrich the lives of people of all ages across the state.”

The matching grants help support projects that involve the creation and presentation of new and established work.

Projects include commissions, residencies, rehearsals, workshops, performances, exhibitions, publications, festivals and training programs. NEA grants generate an average of $7 for each dollar awarded.