The MAP Fund is a national grant program, meaning our funding supports projects based all across the USA. This year, we’re proud to support 40 projects! Here’s a snapshot of projects taking place in different regions of the country:
LILIʻU: Tribute to a Queen | Honolulu, HI
LILIʻU: Tribute to a Queen commemorates Queen Liliʻuokalani, Hawaiʻi’s last Queen, and her historic artful acts of resistance. This free public performance will take place at ʻIolani Palace — the only royal residence in the United States — and merges Native Hawaiian and Western art traditions of music, dance, and theatre.
OUR VOICES: DEMOCRACY RE:visited | Cleveland, OH
Terence Blanchard’s OUR VOICES: DEMOCRACY RE:visited is a new composition inspired by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This multi-movement work will use music to reflect the conditions, events and individuals that have produced political change and impacted public policy in the USA.
GROUNDWORKS | Santa Fe, NM
GROUNDWORKS, created by Rulan Tangen / Dancing Earth, is a daylong, multidisciplinary mobile performance art installation. This project will disrupt colonization practices to ritually re-indigenize stolen land, foregrounding Indigenous original presence and raising consciousness around colonization, accountability, and conquest.
Remnant | New York, NY
Last year, Theater Mitu’s company of artists were sent on a series of research trips to conduct personal interviews throughout the Middle East and United States. These voices are the primary source material that populate Remnant, a documentary performance piece that focuses on the human experience of war.
The full list of 2017 grantee projects came from applicant organizations based in the following locations:
- Los Altos, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Oakland, CA
- Richmond, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Miami, FL
- Honolulu, HI
- Chicago, IL
- New Orleans, LA
- Lexington, MA
- Minneapolis, MN
- Morton, MN
- Santa Fe, NM
- Jersey City, NJ
- Bronx, NY
- Brooklyn, NY
- Jamaica, NY
- Kingston, NY
- New York, NY
- Cleveland, OH
- Portland, OR
- Philadelphia, PA
- Providence, RI
- Seattle, WA
Learn more about the 2017 MAP grantees here.
