The MAP Fund announces 2022 grantees: New Mexico’s fronteristxs collective has been awarded $30,000 for the House of An-Aesthesia, an experimental runway performance with ungendered looks designed to disrupt surveillance technologies in a city with one of the highest police brutality rates in the nation. fronteristxs is a collective of artists in New Mexico working to end migrant detention and abolish the prison industrial complex. We imagine and fight for a world of liberation for all. The fronteristxs collective consists of Szu-Han Ho (UNM Associate Professor in Art & Ecology), Bernadine Hernández (UNM Associate Professor in English), hazel batrezchavez (UNM MFA ’20) and Martín Wannam (UNM MFA ’20).
In 2022, the MAP Fund awarded $2.6 million to more than 300 artists across 88 live performance projects. Each grantee project received $30,000, which includes $25,000 towards the proposed work and $5,000 in unrestricted funds. We celebrate and honor the multiplicity of their brilliant ideas and deep practices, which collectively move us toward a better world.