Scaffolding for Practicing Artists (SPA)

SPA provides artists with one-on-one coaching and peer artist gatherings, helping them thoughtfully address their artistic and professional goals and challenges. SPA is free for artists and artist-directed at each step. Since 2011, SPA has supported‌ ‌360+ artists with 1,600+ hours of‌‌ coaching and 35+ gatherings.‌ SPA serves artists across all disciplines including choreographers, directors, playwrights, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and visual and multimedia artists. 

Learn more about SPA. SPA is currently available to MAP alumni grantees and our partner organizations, including the Jerome Foundation’s Jerome Hill Fellows and Princess Grace Foundation’s Artist Fellows.

Grants

From 1989 to 2024, MAP maintained a national grants program for artists creating radical, bold, and experimental performance work. We retired our grantmaking in December 2024. 

MAP’s grants program was one of the one of the longest-running, private funding sources for performing arts in the United States. Over thirty-five years, MAP awarded nearly $40 million to artist grantees, supporting more than 2,500 individual artists and ensembles through 1,614 funded projects. 

Visit our grantee archive here, and view our calendar of upcoming MAP alumni performances here.