The MAP Fund announces its 2020 grantees
“MAP serves contemporary artists, of all abilities and backgrounds, whose work presents an intellectual and/or aesthetic challenge to canon and convention and, by extension, to ableist, cis, hetero-normative, white/Western cultural dominance. MAP was founded on the principle that exploration drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine, and that society’s capacity to understand and improve complex social and political dynamics is achieved through such inquiry. MAP supports projects that embody this search and is particularly interested in those that question, disrupt, and complicate notions of social and cultural hierarchies.”
“The MAP Fund ([formerly] known as the Multi-Arts Production Fund) was established in 1988 by The Rockefeller Foundation to support innovation and cross-cultural exploration in new works of live performance. Among the longest running programs in arts philanthropy, in over 30 years MAP has disbursed more than $30 million to thousands of groundbreaking projects in playwriting, choreography, music composition, interdisciplinary collaboration, and ensemble, site-specific, and community-based performance. MAP-supported works have been undertaken in hundreds of cities across the United States as well as internationally, and by conservative estimates have reached over two million audience members.
Over time, the organization has expanded to include new approaches to arts advocacy, including the Scaffolding for Practicing Artists (SPA) program, the Equity in the Panel Room initiative, and multiple research initiatives.”