MAPS Media Institute Founder and President Peter Rosten Honored as Purpose Prize Fellow 2013

Rosten brings after-school arts education to students in rural Montana to promote creativity–and launch careers.

Media Arts in the Public Schools http://www.mediarts.org/

After more than 35 years as a film and television writer, producer and director, Peter Rosten had had enough of Hollywood, and in 2002 he decamped for rural Darby, Montana. He soon noted a social need in his new community: a paucity of arts education. He saw budget shortages, economic disadvantage and an education environment that left the arts behind.

Inspired by the passion and creativity that had motivated his film career, Rosten asked the Corvallis School District if he could start an after-school digital media class. In 2004, with an old camera, a handful of low-tech computers, an empty classroom and $10,000 of his own money, Rosten launched MAPS:

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