MAP Fund

09/05/2024

08/20/2024

MAP Fund is pleased to announce its 2024 grantees! This grant cycle, we are awarding $2.883 million to 93 live performance projects.
The 2024 cycle marks the largest one-time award distribution in our organization’s 36-year history. Each 2024 MAP grant comprises a total of $31,000: $25,000 for grantee project development, $5,000 for grantee unrestricted support, and $1,000 microgrant for the grantee to direct to a peer artist of their choice.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll feature these new grantees on our Instagram!

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10/23/2023

Big announcement: MAP's 2024 grant cycle is NOW OPEN!

This opportunity is the latest in MAP’s 35-year history of support for performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. In this grant cycle, MAP will distribute $2.8M to the performing arts ecology — our largest investment to date.

More than 90 grantees will each receive:
A $25,000 grant for the creation and development of a new, live performance project,
A $5,000 unrestricted general operating grant, and
A $1,000 microgrant to redistribute to another artist in their community.

We encourage those who do not wish to seek project funding at this time to express interest in serving as a reviewer.

The application for funding and the reviewer interest form are both open now through 5:00 p.m. ET on December 19, 2023. Go to mapfund.org/2024-cycle to learn more!

04/19/2023

MAP is excited to announce our first microgrant initiative! Following artist-led mutual aid networks and our ongoing desire to expand MAP’s circle of support, we invited all eighty-eight 2022 MAP grantees to choose an artist in their community to receive an unrestricted $1,000 grant. Join us in celebrating the micrograntees!

“This was clearly designed as an easeful, low effort, low friction, and consentful process. It means so much when funding opportunities do not create new stress or obligations.” – micro…

03/23/2023

Upcoming: Join Bridge Live Arts for Liberating Bodies, a two event series curated by B.L.A. Co-Director (and past MAP reviewer!) Cherie Hill featuring Black Diaspora dance artists working between the nuances of sites, sound, community, and embodiment.

A public dialogue with Onye Ozuzu & amara tabor smith

03/21/2023

Spotlight—“Swan” is a fantastical dark-comedy-slash-ghost story that follows an eighteen-year-old Korean-American closeted transmasc who is forced to confront his desire to embrace his identity. "Swan" is created by Sophie Kim, Tonasia Jones, and Cara Hinh.

Visit and Kim's website to learn more about their practice and project. thesophiekim.com

03/20/2023

Spotlight—“The Best Part of Night is Black” is an immersive love story about two q***r Black people that aims to broaden our societal understanding of partnership.

Timothy DuWhite, Zhailon Levingston, and Bryan Joseph Lee are the artists involved in bringing this project together.

Visit the artists' websites to learn more about their practice and project.

Timothy DuWhite: Timothyduwhite.com
Bryan Joseph Lee: cntrarts.com

📸 by Simone Acosta

03/17/2023

Spotlight—“Mother / Forgotten Blaze” is a multimedia performance set in the charred landscape of a recent mega-inferno that q***rs the word and the concept of "mother." This project is created by Javier Stell-Frésquez and Ivy Monteiro.

Visit their profile and Monteiro's website to learn more about their practice and project: ivymonteiro.net

📸 by Kegan Marling

03/16/2023

Spotlight— Bennyroyce Dance “Begin Again” is a work of contemporary movement and visual design that invites audiences to reshape their expectations of a post-pandemic future by inspiring deep reflection, dialogue, and action.

➡️ Visit Bennyroyce’s profile and website to learn more about his practice and project: bennyroyce.com