Midwest Artist Project Services - MAPS

Midwest Artist Project Services - MAPS MAPS serves and empowers individual artists, collectives, and emerging arts organizations in the Mid Louis region and beyond.

Founded in 2012, MAPS is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that serves and empowers individual artists, collectives, and emerging arts organizations in the Midwest region by promoting new and sustainable growth through fiscal sponsorship, consultation, education, and providing access to best solutions for the current issues that affect artists. MAPS offers free or low­cost resources for working artists in al

l disciplines—visual artists, musicians, creative writers, craft artists, theater and dance artists, filmmakers, and other originating artists— in the St.

It's Give STL Day!Thank you to everyone who makes MAPS possible.Since 2012, MAPS has been serving and empowering individ...
05/08/2025

It's Give STL Day!

Thank you to everyone who makes MAPS possible.

Since 2012, MAPS has been serving and empowering individual artists, collectives, and emerging arts organizations in the Midwest region by promoting new and sustainable growth through fiscal sponsorship, consultation, education, and providing access to best solutions for the current issues that affect artists.

We would love to hear how MAPS has helped you in the comments below!

To support MAPS, please visit https://www.givestlday.org/organization/Midwest-Artist-Project-Services

Please join us in celebrating the winner of our 2025 Mock Grant Panel, Martha Valenta!"I’m incredibly grateful to Midwes...
02/19/2025

Please join us in celebrating the winner of our 2025 Mock Grant Panel, Martha Valenta!

"I’m incredibly grateful to Midwest Artist Project Services for offering the Mock Grant Application process. Last year’s event taught me so much, and the feedback I received from my grant applications through the year helped me refine my approach—leading to success in securing funding. Now, with this support, I’m excited to take “The Daydream Workshop Project: Driving Creativity & Connection” to the next level. This project transforms a cargo van into a mobile art installation, bringing interactive, tactile, and immersive art experiences to neurodiverse and underserved communities. Through creativity, it helps ADHD folks find self-acceptance and their loved ones understand them a bit more. With this mock grant, I’ll be using this application to seek real funding and make this vision a reality. Thank you for empowering artists like me to dream big and make it happen!" - Martha Valenta

And thank you to all who attended! To learn more about our annual Mock Panel, please visit: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

Please join us in celebrating the winner of our 2025 Mock Grant Panel, Darian Wigfall!"I don’t make a ton of money but t...
02/18/2025

Please join us in celebrating the winner of our 2025 Mock Grant Panel, Darian Wigfall!

"I don’t make a ton of money but this is probably the most proud I’ve ever been to make $500. Thank you for this opportunity! The panel discussion was invaluable and to win in my category shows me I should keep going in my effort to honor my ancestors through truth and storytelling. Thank you so much to Brigid, Liz, Syrhea, the panel members and other applicants and everyone else at MAPS for this experience! We plan to take all of the feedback and incorporate it for all of our future grant applications." - Darian Wigfall

And thank you to all who attended! To learn more about our annual Mock Panel, please visit: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!Lizzy Petersen is a poet and community artist from St. Louis, MO, where she works in ...
02/01/2025

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!

Lizzy Petersen is a poet and community artist from St. Louis, MO, where she works in fundraising at Nine PBS. In 2021, she served as an Interchange Fellow through the Mid-America Arts Alliance to support her work with OutsideLitMag.com, a student-run literary arts magazine and writing workshop held after school in partnership with Saint Louis Public Schools. She was a 2021 Resident Artist for the Kranzberg Arts Foundation and part of the 2019/2020 Community Arts Training (CAT) cohort at the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. Her poetry has appeared in december, Image, and Ninth Letter, among others. She currently serves on the board of the Saint Louis Poetry Center, the new home of OutsideLitMag.com, where she also co-curates the Observable Reading Series.

Join us on Thursday, February 6, from 6–9 PM at The Luminary. The event is free and open to the public. Please register here: https://buff.ly/4gffdHq

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!Mee Jey is a multidisciplinary artist from India. She was awarded St. Louis Visonery ...
02/01/2025

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!

Mee Jey is a multidisciplinary artist from India. She was awarded St. Louis Visonery Artist Award and Mother Art Prize in London for the year 2022-23. A Sam Fox Graduate and RAC CAT alumni Mee Jey has been A-i-R at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Craft Alliance and Creative Lab Fellow at Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis in recent years. Currently she is Gallery and Art & Design Manager at COCA.

Join us on Thursday, February 6, from 6–9 PM at The Luminary. The event is free and open to the public. Please register here: https://buff.ly/4gffdHq

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!Kathryn Bentley is the Founder and Curator of The Alaiyo Collective, which is dedicat...
01/31/2025

Meet our 2025 Mock Grant Panelists!

Kathryn Bentley is the Founder and Curator of The Alaiyo Collective, which is dedicated to developing creative works and utilizing inclusive theater practices to lift social consciousness. Kathryn has over 40 years of experience as an actor, director and teaching artist. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Directing and completed a 20-year career as a university professor. She has performance and directing credits with companies such as Cleveland Playhouse, Buffalo Studio Arena, The St. Louis Black Rep and St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. Kathryn is a co-founder of Action Art Collaborative which uses art to build community and ignite social change. She is a St. Louis Regional Arts Commission (RAC) Community Arts Training Institute Fellow and a member of their advisory board and faculty. In 2014, she was one of the premiere recipients of the RAC Artist Fellowship and in 2020 she received the Outstanding Working Artist St. Louis Visionary Award. Kathryn is a Certified Diversity FaciliTrainer and Cultural Sensitivity Specialist.

Join us on Thursday, February 6, from 6–9 PM at The Luminary.The event is free and open to the public. Please register here: https://buff.ly/4gffdHq

You're invited to the 2025 MAPS Mock Grant Panel!Join us on Thursday, February 6, from 6–9 PM at The Luminary for a behi...
01/27/2025

You're invited to the 2025 MAPS Mock Grant Panel!

Join us on Thursday, February 6, from 6–9 PM at The Luminary for a behind-the-scenes look at a formal grant panel review process. This is a unique opportunity to:

- Learn key strategies for crafting successful grant applications
- Gain insights from experienced arts professionals
- Network with local artists and professionals

As a bonus, attendees will receive:

- A gift card for one MAPS Consultation
- Entry into a raffle to win a one-night stay at the 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis

The event is free and open to the public. Please register using the following link: https://buff.ly/4gffdHq

Getting ready for RAC?Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an opportunity to practi...
01/15/2025

Getting ready for RAC?

Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an opportunity to practice grant writing, receive formal feedback from a review committee, and a chance to win $500!

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

Getting ready for Futures Fund?Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an opportunity ...
01/08/2025

Getting ready for Futures Fund?

Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an opportunity to practice grant writing, receive formal feedback from a review committee, and a chance to win $500!

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

Getting ready for the Great Rivers Biennial?Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an...
12/20/2024

Getting ready for the Great Rivers Biennial?

Get your grant application ready with the MAPS Mock Grant Panel, offering an opportunity to practice grant writing, receive formal feedback from a review committee, and a chance to win $500!

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

The MAPS Mock Grant Panel is back! ⠀⠀The 2025 Mock Grant Panel is an opportunity to practice writing a grant application...
12/02/2024

The MAPS Mock Grant Panel is back! ⠀
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The 2025 Mock Grant Panel is an opportunity to practice writing a grant application for your arts-based project and to get formal feedback from a review committee.

The Mock Grant Panel is divided into two submission pools: one for applicants who have more experience or success with past applications, and one for those who may be first-time applicants, or who have not had successful past applications. Winning applications in each category will receive a $500 no-strings-attached cash prize.

Artists of all disciplines are invited to submit applications with budgets up to $50,000 through Monday, January 20, 2025 at midnight.

For more information or to apply: https://buff.ly/3WkpgCa

Do you have an arts project idea that needs support and resources?Our fiscal sponsorship program is now taking applicati...
09/25/2024

Do you have an arts project idea that needs support and resources?

Our fiscal sponsorship program is now taking applications until October 14th! Fiscal sponsorship can help support a project that's not a non-profit.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://buff.ly/3TMCoiw

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St. Louis, MO
63158

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