Terra Moto Inc.
Founded in 1989, Terra Moto Inc. is a multi-disciplinary nonprofit arts organization (501(c)(3)) that brings the imaginative reach and transformative power of creativity into civic life.
Since 2000, under Executive Director Marty Pottenger's leadership, Terra Moto Inc. has focused on performance, community arts projects and arts-based civic dialogues.
Since 2007, Terra Moto's core project has been Art At Work, a national initiative to improve municipal government through strategic arts projects with city employees, unions, elected officials and community. Piloted in partnership with the City of Portland Maine, Art At Work is currently establishing partnerships with 3 additional cities for 3 year pilots.
Interested cities are encouraged to send an email to
Primary support for Art At Work and Terra Moto Inc has come from the Nathan Cummings Foundation with additional support from Lila Wallace Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Kellogg Foundation, Americans for the Arts, Animating Democracy Initiative, New York State Council on the Arts, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Artslink, Maine Community Foundation, Rines Thompson Fund, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Humanities Council, the Center for Cultural Exchange, the Samuel L. Cohen Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
* Terra Moto and Executive Director Pottenger’s award-winning performance projects include City Water Tunnel #3 (OBIE); Abundance: Money and America (Seattle Time's Ten Best); and home land security (Best of Portland). For more information visit www.martypottenger.com
Contributions to the work of Terra Moto are fully tax-deductible and deeply appreciated.
Terra Moto Inc. Board and Officers 2010 - 2012
Board of Trustees
Azadeh Khalili
Former Deputy Commissioner for the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, Bloomberg Administration
Brooklyn, NY
Joe Lambert
Director Center for Digital StorytellingBerkeley, CA
Alvan Colón Lespier
Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater
Bronx, NY
Robbie McCauley
Professor of Performing Arts, Emerson College
Boston, MA
Marty Pottenger
Executive Director of Terra Moto Inc., Artist
Portland, ME
Officers
Marty Pottenger, President
Executive Director of Terra Moto Inc., Artist
Portland, ME
Katy Taylor, Secretary
Mayor’s Office of Adult Education, NYC, Senior Program Director, Bloomberg Administration
NY, NY
Beverly Dacey, Treasurer
Former Director of Finance, Center for Cultural ExchangePortland, ME