Championing culture
​Building local and global bridges that foster human affinity, opportunity and peace, MAP360 is Championing Culture by producing multi-disciplinary art projects whose language resonates universally beyond the neighborhoods where they are rooted.
MAP360/ REMEMBERING MONROE PROJECT
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
MAP360 invites renowned international artists to the American South to create public works inspired by its people. Artist Fellows spend time with locals, learn one another's stories, taste the local culture. From their experiences, public works are created, new relationships formed and bridges of understanding spanned.
Presently, MAP360 has produced 7 public installations in downtown Montgomery, infusing downtown's once hollowed out center with the color, stories and spirit of the people who reside there.
These public works are emblematic of MAP360's belief that the arts belongs squarely in the public -- on walls, in song and in movement.
PUBLIC ART EXHIBITIONS
Public Art exhibitions are a vital form of storytelling in a community. MAP360 produced shows including This is where you'll find me, (Fe)male, It's Me, Montgomery and Journey of the Conference have showcased 64 emerging artists. Our in residency grants, and the Kress Community Room gave room for many more pop up community-led exhibitions.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
In the center of downtown Montgomery, MAP360 installed a “Storybooth”, inviting passersby to share their stories. The 577 submissions are accessible on MAP360's public archive platform, STORYBOOTH.US. This vast collection of submissions offer diverse, intimate viewpoints into a city, events and people often cloaked in myth.
In 2026 , MAP360 has plans to re-open STORYBOOTH with locations in other communities where there is a desire and motivation for the voices and stories of its people to be memorialized for now and the future.
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SHORT DOCUMENTARY
MAP360 entrusts local and visiting filmmakers to capture the uniqueness of what unfolds during our projects. Our short docs are a development opportunity for aspiring filmmakers, while simultaneously ensuring the artists involved in a project to have a direct platform to express the intention of their work, their artistry and their experience.
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Presently, MAP360 has produced 4 short documentaries.
​Searching for Simorgh is being shared at film festivals; including as the premiere film at Selma Cinema Festival and as winner of short doc awards at Tryon Film Festival, Cannes US International Film Festival, and MONIFF.
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Montgomerians have lost the internal view of themselves [that they should be recognized internationally]. With Monkeybird, it helped Montgomerians see that we’re still important, that people want to be here, and that we have something to contribute. That mural and others gave Montgomery permission to change their own perception about them-selves and realize that they are a community worth investing in.
— Collier Neeley, former Executive Director of the Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery
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