The MAP Fund invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. Our 2024 grant cycle will provide grants to more than 90 new, live performance projects across the lands now known as the United States, including its territories and Indigenous tribal nations within. The MAP Fund invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. Our 2024 grant cycle will provide grants to more than 90 new, live performance projects across the lands now known as the United States, including its territories and Indigenous tribal nations within.
MAP staff read every submitted application to confirm eligibility, and proposals that do not clearly meet the above criteria and/or have insufficient information will be deemed ineligible.
We encourage applications from artists whose performance-making is intended to be–or is coded by the dominant culture as–radical, bold, experimental, and risky in its design, execution, and community resonance. MAP might not be the best fit for you if your work would be considered to include conventional and/or commercial dance, music, or theater practices in its form, content, and/or creation process. Reviewers will assess projects on how they demonstrate potential to exemplify and/or expand upon MAP’s mission to invest in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. Reviewers search for evidence of this potential in how applicants speak to:
– Their experimentation with performance forms and content that aims to advance conversations, perceptions, and/or policies.
– Their effort toward creating an artistic process that treats all participants with care and respect, especially in relation to existing systems of oppression.
Following the review process, applicants selected for an award must adhere to the following criteria:
– The artists will be responsible for choosing a US-based grant custodian. The grant custodian can be an individual with an SSN or ITIN, or an entity with one of these incorporation structures: 501(c)(3), LLC, or S-Corps.
– Applicants intend to spend the grant down from September 2024 to August 2026 (subject to extension on a case-by-case basis)