2024 MAP Reviewers

“My experience with the MAP’s review process was absolutely amazing.” 

MAP’s 2024 grant cycle welcomed 93 incredible reviewers. Often holding multiple professions and passions, reviewers described their past and current selves as: musicians and composers (of jazz, funk, rap, classical, folk and more), performance artists, cultural workers, activists, poets, educators, dancers and choreographers, crafts persons, actors, writers, designers, researchers, directors, non-profit leaders, producers, installation artists, journalists, and emcees, as well as a spectacle maker, a human rights worker, an erotic laborer, a professional Dungeons & Dragons gamemaster, a cultural translator, a drag artist, and a creator of a community-based book club. Their work and inquiry spans a wide variety of topics such as disability justice, Black feminist thought, fat liberation, political education, multisensory storytelling, medical biases, lesbian history, equitable funding design, Indigenous futurism, environmental justice, AfroSurrealism, spiritual practices, healing justice, abolition, Yoruba masquerade tradition, circus, international collaboration, anarchy, and immigrants rights.

We thank them for their thoughtful and invaluable participation in our program.

To read interviews with four of the reviewers above about their experience during the 2024 MAP grant cycle, click here.

Banner: 2024 MAP grantee Dancing Earth. Photo courtesy of the artists.