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MAPS (Music Art Puppet Sound, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that creates and implements exceptional arts programming for community engaged art. MAPS makes exciting, hands-on arts experiences using many types of media including visual arts, puppetry, painting, sculpture, sound, music composition, dance and video works. In our community engaged programming, we strive to create imaginative art-making spaces where participants can thrive as they explore a range of artistic media. We hope to spark deep curiosity about ideas and process, encourage creative friendships and give participants the freedom to play and invent. We believe that creative practice can provide emotional relief in difficult circumstances. MAPS is at once an experimental art playground, a space for creative discourse, an arts collective producing multidisciplinary works and an educational program.
Since 2018, MAPS has been bringing exciting, arts-based curricula to public schools, community organizations, museums, libraries and more. MAPS engages participants in creative practice and dialogue through the use of visual art, theater arts, puppetry and music composition. In all of our work, whether it is a socially engaged performance, art show, or community based program, we bring social and emotional considerations into our practice, prioritizing curiosity and experimentation in all that we do.
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Aspen Art Museum Youth Art Expo
A show at the Aspen Art Museum co-curated between MAPS and Poncili Creación
Aaron Rourk Music Compositions
MAPS Artist, Aaron Rourk, music compositions
MAPS Artist Rachel Sherk's website
A project of MAPS artist, Aaron Rourk
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School of the Arts
Legal Status:
Nonprofit - Independent
Year Founded:
2018
Institution/Business Type:
School of the Arts
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Nonprofit - Independent
Year Founded:
2018
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Aspen Art Museum
Museum - Art
MAPS co-curated their youth art expo with Poncili Creación and created/facilitated curricula along with co-creating two performances.
The Mastheads
Cultural Series Organization
The Mastheads is a Berkshire-based organization working in the fields of poetry and design. MAPS has partnered with them on various projects.
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services
Community Service Organization
MAPS works with formerly homeless mothers and kids, along with adults with mental illness, through art and gardening projects.
East Village Community School
School (K-12 Arts Program / Department)
A public school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan which MAPS does yearly arts integration workshops.
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At MAPS we work with the organization we are partnering with.Teaching Settings:
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We are a nonprofit and part of our mission is to bring exciting arts programming to underfunded communities. So we work with partnering organizations to keep our programming affordable, and mostly free, for participants and viewers.State of Residence:
MassachusettsMinimum Number of Performers:
2Maximum Number of Performers:
10