The More Arts Program (MAP)

WyAA’s Professional Development Toolbox 

MAP is a professional development program created to address the community and cultural leadership training needs of Wyoming communities.  This training program is seen by WyAA as critical to building a stronger consortium of voices in support of the arts as key components in community development and in enhancing a statewide creative economy.

  • Beyond the Arts: MAP is an economic diversification tool. It focuses on how local arts organizations act as "boots on the ground" to improve a town's resiliency and prosperity, making communities more attractive for workforce retention.

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Are you Ready to Lead?

Join the movement that turns a statewide vision into your community’s reality. Participation in the MAP is through a community-sponsored application process. Wyoming communities accepted into the MAP receive the training at no cost. Through the MAP, workshops are tailor-made for a community’s training needs, including seminars on:

  • creating collaborations and partnerships between community and cultural leaders

  • improving board and volunteer function

  • fundraising strategies

  • reaching your community vision

  • advocacy, promotion, & marketing

MAP Communities & History

In 2020, WyAA completed the program’s first pilot year. Between 2020 and 2022, WyAA worked with over 100 alumni in 7 communities, refining the program each time. In 2023, WyAA opened the program to applications on a rolling basis, accepting up to 4 communities per fiscal year. The MAP program is supported through grants from the Wyoming Arts Council, Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, and the Wyoming Community Foundation

  • Rock Springs, Gillette, Powell, Casper, Laramie, Sheridan, Lander

“I feel like any program designed to bring people together to energize them and help organize a movement toward improving the art culture in their town is worth it!” – MAP Alumn

MAP COMMUNITY APPLICATION

“WYAA’s training program is providing tools and planning sessions that connect local entities and aid them in developing strategies for impacting their local arts communities. This is an important program that strengthens arts communities at both a local and statewide level.” – MAP Alum

“MAP is a great exercise to get people focused and on the same page.” – MAP Alum