Deadline: 22-Jun-22
The Leeway Foundation is inviting applications for Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency Grant Program to provide grants to women, trans, and gender nonconforming media artists working in close collaboration with social justice/cultural organizations to document, reframe, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns addressed by the organization.
The residency aims to reveal and extend the ways that artists and artistic processes can work within cultural and social justice organizations to achieve social change. Artists and organizations apply collaboratively with proposals for a project that embeds the artist in the work of the organization for one year.
Funding Information
- Three residencies will be awarded, with each residency providing a $15,000 grant to the artist, and a $10,000 grant to the organization.
- The Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency provides grants of $25,000 .
Categories
Leeway supports artists involved in 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.
Leeway understands Media Arts as an expansive category including but not limited to:
- film and video
- (narrative, documentary, experimental)
- audio
- podcast
- installation/projection x animation
- interactive design
- digital art
- games/gaming
- web-based content
- multimedia/multi-disciplinary work
Eligibility Criteria
For Artists
You are eligible to apply if you:
- Are a media artist
- Live in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
- Are at least 18 years old
- Identify as a woman, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming person
- Are working collaboratively with a social justice/cultural organization.
For Organizations
You are eligible to apply if your organization is:
- A social justice/cultural organization with a 501(c)3 status and/or fiscal sponsorship
- Located in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
- Working with an operating budget less than $1.5M
- Collaborating with a media artist
Ineligibility Criteria
For Artists
You may not apply if you:
- Do not have a collaborating organization
- Are on the staff or board of the collaborating organization
- Are a full-time student in an arts degree program
- Have received a 2021 Transformation Award
- Have applied for a 2022 Transformation Award
- Have not turned in all reports due from previous Leeway grants and residencies
For Organizations
You may not apply if your organization:
- Does not have a collaborating media artist
- Is collaborating with a media artist who is on the staff or board of your organization
- Has an operating budget greater than $1.5M
For more information, visit https://www.leeway.org/grants/leeway_x_ipmf_media_artist_activist_residency
