MAPS Media Institute is scouting new locations and success

If you build it, they will come.

Despite some lingering questions on how to fund MAPS Media Institute http://mediarts.org/ , this phrase might be the program’s current motto, the program’s founder Peter Rosten said during a meeting with his presumptive team Monday.

“We are all proceeding with the expectation that this is going to happen,” Rosten said, during a tour of potential classrooms for MAPS at Westview School in Hamilton.

Rosten, who shelved MAPS during last year’s ill-fated attempt to unseat Ron Stoker in House District 87, was upbeat about the prospects for cranking MAPS back to life after the hiatus.

Rosten said his optimism is fueled in no small part by the people he has lined up to teach for MAPS: former KPAX-TV newsman Ian Marquand would teach journalism; Steve Slocomb would teach documentary film making; and Mike Henderson would be on graphic design and web-based communications. Rosten himself would lead students in fiction film and television production classes.

by SEPP JANNOTTA – Ravalli Republic

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