Moira Brennan

Moira Brennanis the program director for the MAP Fund at Creative Capital. Under her 12-year leadership, MAP has dramatically increased the number of proposals reviewed annually and expanded the program’s formidable impact on contemporary American performance. Ms. Brennan transitioned MAP from an in-house program at Rockefeller Foundation to an independent fund incorporating multiple stakeholders, including the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ms. Brennan also designed and administered the Creative Exploration Fund to encourage continued risk-taking among MAP grantees with a record of success, and introduced General Operating grants for structural support to organizations and independent artists. Most recently she has co-designed a cross-organization inquiry in arts philanthropy called Equity in the Panel Room. She represents MAP throughout the country as a speaker on the complex interplay between creativity, art, power, and money in contemporary culture. Moira currently sits on the board of Movement Research.