Grantmakers in the News

October 1, 2006

The Multi-Arts Production Fund Supports New Works in the Performing Arts

The New York City-based Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, a program established by the Rockefeller Foundation and affiliated with the nonprofit arts advocacy group, Creative Capital, awarded $1 million in grants in 2006 to performing arts organizations across the United States. The MAP Fund supports original new works in all disciplines of the live performing arts and seeks especially to support works that rely on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration and that explore cultural difference, including that of class, gender, generation, ethnicity, or tradition. In addition to financial support, the MAP Fund works closely with artists and arts groups to provide professional development and project planning support.

This year, the MAP Fund awarded grants to support works by arts organizations and individual artists well-known in New York City; among them Bang on a Can All-Stars , Young Jean Lee, a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Robert Ashley, contemporary American composer affiliated with Performing Artservices, Inc., and a performance collaboration between the Builders Association and a group of high school students from the Brooklyn College Community Partnership's after school program. Creative Capital president Ruby Lerner said, "The MAP Program continues to be one of the major sources of support to the country’s most inventive performing artists, and this year’s roster is one of its strongest ever." Complete information about 2006 grantees, including a calendar of performances and events, can be found at www.mapfund.org.

The MAP Fund announced that applications for the 2007-08 grant period will be available in December of this year for its February 16, 2007 deadline. Learn more about the MAP Fund at our Meet the Grantmakers program on Friday, October 13.

Source: Multi-Arts Production Fund Awards Grants, Rockefeller Foundation, July 18, 2006.