Leeway Foundation awards 12 artists with the Transformation Award
The grants will move $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.
The grants will move $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.
The Transformation Award provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work.
Leeway Foundation recognizes the longstanding power of media artists and social-justice activists throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency recipients.
In a time of global unrest and uncertainty, Leeway Foundation continues to be led by our community and grantees to reimagine our world and reclaim spaces of power through their socially engaged artistic and cultural practices.