Alum Keioui Keijaun Thomas Receives MAP Fund Artist Grant 

A person wearing a white dress stands on a large mound of dirt. Behind them is a tall rocky cliff and a gathering of large trees.

Still from Keiouni Keijaun Thomas’ project Come Hell or High Femmes:The Era of the Dolls. Image courtesy of the MAP Fund.

Still from Keiouni Keijaun Thomas’ project Come Hell or High Femmes:The Era of the Dolls. Image courtesy of the MAP Fund.

Alum Keiouni Keijaun Thomas (MFA 2014) has been announced as one of the recipients of this year’s MAP Fund Artist Grants. Each year, the MAP Fund recognizes and financially supports performing artists who are often not included in traditional arts philanthropy in order to “celebrate and honor the multiplicity of […] ideas and deep practices.”

This year’s cycle includes 300 artists across 88 live performance projects. As one of this year’s award recipients, Thomas will receive $30,000. Of this grant, $25,000 will be used to support Thomas’s multimedia performance project Come Hell or High Femmes, which depicts “a post-apocalyptic geography in which trans femmes are the only survivors,” and the remaining $5,000 will be used as unrestricted funds.

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