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MAPS Media Institute, going into their 19th year, is excited to open their doors for afterschool classes starting on Sept. 26. MAPS staff serve as a resource for processing huge amounts media content information. Young people are bombarded by media content through multiple forms of technology daily. The access to real-time information has never been […]

MAPS Media Institute classes continue this fall with exciting selections in design, film, music, and new technologies. Fall is looking bright for MAPS students, and it isn’t just because their free-of-charge media arts classes will all be in-person. MAPS Fall line-up offers students the chance to work with new instructors, learn new skills, and create

Who is MAPS? MAPS, originally named Media Arts in the Public Schools, started in 2004 as an after-school and summer media arts program in the Bitterroot Valley. This Montana nonprofit is a National Arts and Humanities Youth Programs awardee, an award which has allowed them to expand to several communities across Montana.  What is a MAPSter? While a MAPSter

MAPS Media Institute has been approved for a $36,100 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the continued expansion of the MAPS Media Lab, their statewide educational outreach program which brings MAPS award-winning programming to students in tribal communities across Montana. MAPS Media Institute’s project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America totaling

“EAST,” the award-winning film produced by MAPS Media Institute, in partnership with The Myrna Loy of Helena, will be one of four MAPS films showcased in the second MT PBS installment of “Stories from Montana’s Future: Lewis and Clark County.” This unique film was written, filmed, directed and edited by teen artists in a series

A new film series produced by MAPS Media Institute will premiere on Montana PBS at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7. “Stories from Montana’s Future” showcases the filmmaking talent of high school students from across the state. The first episode, airing on Jan. 7, is entitled “Blackfeet Country” and includes three award-winning short films made by the students

Confronting a global pandemic wasn’t part of the MAPS action plan for 2020. Just a year ago, MAPS Media Institute was celebrating a significant milestone, looking forward to growth in new directions and expanding their award-winning program to students statewide. 2019 marked MAPS 16th year of providing intensive, free-of-charge after-school and summer media-arts classes for

Montana is making a splash when it comes to high school student filmmaking. One year after earning three regional production awards—and one highly coveted national award—from NATAS (the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, known more widely as the group behind the Emmy Awards), students of the Montana-based MAPS Media Institute have taken home

MAPS Media Institute will shift exclusively to an online format for its summer 2020 courses, a natural move for an organization that teaches media arts. The entire curriculum will remain free of charge, and for the first time, MAPS will open select summer classes to all eighth- through 12th-grade students statewide. The move comes in

Ordinarily, news of a couple of Montana-made films’ acceptance to a Montana film festival might not be so newsworthy. But when the films were created by students of two different Indian reservations under the auspices of an award-winning media arts program, and when the festival is the largest of its kind in the American West