Pia Agrawal named incoming executive director of Leeway Foundation
The Leeway Board of Directors announced Pia Agrawal as our new executive director beginning January 27, 2025.
The Leeway Board of Directors announced Pia Agrawal as our new executive director beginning January 27, 2025.
Thirty women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia were selected to receive the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG).
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.
In response to the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021.
Leeway's Fall 2020 Art and Change Grants (ACG) support 22 artists leading the exploration of how we adapt art and community-based practices in the time of a global pandemic. Cultural preservation and feminism were highlighted as trending areas of focus.
The Leeway Foundation announces $42,500 in support to 17 individual artists and cultural producers focused in community and cultural preservation for Spring 2020.
Leeway announced $150,000 in unrestricted funding to 10 artists committed to art for social change.
The Leeway Foundation announced $55,000 in funding for 31 individual women, trans and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, to support their work addressing a range of social change issues.
The Leeway Foundation announced $135,000 in grants to nine women and trans* artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, acknowledging their commitment to art and social justice that impacts a larger audience or community.
Presented by Leeway Foundation and co-sponsored by Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Grantmakers in the Arts, Gender Justice Fund, Justice Funders, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, Trans Justice Funding Project and William Way LGBT Community