MAP360/ ARTS IN MOTION FESTIVAL
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Since 2018, MAP360 has built a living, growing ecosystem of arts programming that produces landmark public art, activates community spaces, tells untold stories, and creates meaningful pathways for artists to build sustainable creative careers. MAP360’s programs work together to empower communities to share their untold stories through art as living history.
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Catalyzing CAREERS
Providing grants, artists residencies, sponsored gallery exhibitions and more, MAP360 is Catalyzing Careers by amplifying the work of artists and creative entrepreneurs through platforms, resources, and recognition that showcase their talent and expand opportunity.
Connecting COMMUNITY
Gathering together in shared experience to strengthen community, MAP360 is Connecting Community by inspiring engagement, dialogue, and shared creative expression that transform place, relationships, and futures.
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​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.
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
MAP360 believes that community transformation begins with a story. Not a strategy. Not a plan. A story.
When communities are given the resources, the space, and the creative support to tell their own stories — on their own terms, in their own voices — something profound happens. People see themselves and each other differently. Shared identity deepens. Divisions soften. And the belief that change is possible takes root.
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The mechanism is concrete. It operates when a mural goes up on a wall that was once blank and forgotten. When an artist who lacked a platform suddenly has one. When a community gathers around a piece of art and recognizes itself — its history, its pain, its beauty, its possibility — for the first time.
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MAP360 works at the intersection of art, community, and opportunity — investing in artists, activating spaces, and building the conditions for stories to be told and heard. We believe that when communities own their narratives, they own their futures. And when their stories reach the world, the world is changed by them.​
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“Downtown has a lot of white buildings, which lend themselves to a culture of ‘no’ and maintaining law and order. The work MAP360 has done with creative placemaking has added color, texture, and vibrancy to the landscape. That has ripple effects, getting people to think about innovation and imagination, and it inspires the creatives here to do more and invites them to the table.”
— Kalonji Gilchrist, filmmaker, curator, cultural organizer, and founder of 21Dreams Arts & Culture