MAPS Media Institute

LEARN MORE ABOUT MAPS… Learn more about MAPS Media Institute – the work MAPS does through programs, classes, the MAPS Media Lab, client projects, and recent awards MAPS student work has received! Last Updated

LEARN ABOUT MAPS MEDIA LAB… Learn more about the Statewide Educational Outreach Program of MAPS Media Institute established in 2017! Last Updated

To read the full winter edition of the Montana Art Council’s State of the Arts, please visit: SOA Winter Edition 

When Helena College staff read the National Endowment for the Humanities Notice of Funding Opportunity for Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges, it seemed that the stars were aligned for the college to pursue this grant.

When MAPS Media Institute film instructor Dan Molloy worked with Thompson Falls High School students to create their film “Dragonfly” in a one-week intensive workshop, he knew the students were creating something uniquely powerful. The student filmmakers communicated a StephenKing-like internal drama which resonated on different levels—a teenager’s perspective on the global pandemic; the isolation caused by bullying; commentary on teen suicide.

Congrats to… The fledgling filmmakers from Helena and Harlem who received regional Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). During an online ceremony live-streamed from NATAS NW headquarters in Seattle on Saturday, June 6, officials announced that both “Looking Forward From Yesterday” (Short Form Non-Fiction) and “EAST” (Short Form Fiction)