Leeway Transformation Award

The Leeway Transformation Award (LTA) is unrestricted (it is not project-based) and open to artists and cultural producers working in any medium, including traditional and nontraditional as well as multimedia and experimental forms.

Leeway supports artists and cultural producers involved in creating art for social change that positively affects and engages communities and audiences. Creating social change must be integral to the ideas, beliefs, and goals that are woven throughout your art and your process of creating and sharing your art. 

You are encouraged to apply if you:

• Identify as a woman, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artist
• Are at least 18 years old
• Have lived for the past two or more years (since April 2023) in Greater Philadelphia: Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
• Have been creating art for social change for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to this work

Read the full eligibility criteria for artists on page 3 of the LTA Guidelines in English and Spanish.

Click here to visit our Frequently Asked Questions for LTA.

*Leeway is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we use the term “trans” in its most inclusive sense, as an umbrella term encompassing transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, Two-Spirit people, and anyone whose gender identity or gender expression is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth.