Deadline: 01-Aug-21
The Leeway Foundation has announced Art and Change Grant that supports artists and cultural producers 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.
Art for social change is art with a vision and an intentional analysis. It is an artistic or creative cultural practice that may operate in traditional or nontraditional mediums, modes, or disciplines. Art with a vision impacts people in many ways. It can:
- Raise consciousness.
- Alter how they think about themselves, their society, or their culture.
- Create a vision of a more just world.
- Be a tool or strategy for organizing and movement building.
- Preserve or reclaim traditional cultural practices using your artistic practice as a form of resistance or empowerment
- Create space for expression and build a sense of community.
- Challenge racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, ableism, or other oppressions.
- Question mainstream culture and beliefs.
- Shift or transform the perception of power and/or privilege and the dynamics associated with justice, equality, and/or accountability.
- Value healing justice practices focused on strengthening communities, not just individuals.
- Engage and utilize a reciprocal process — where there is teaching and learning simultaneously and the consent for engagement is mutual, as is the benefit for yourself as an artist and the community you are engaging.
Funding Information
- The Art and Change Grant (ACG) provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women and trans artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Art and Change Grant is open to individual artists and cultural producers working in any medium, including traditional and nontraditional as well as multimedia and experimental forms. The grant may be used for any project-related expenses (e.g., documentation, artist stipends, or the purchase of equipment or materials).
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one application per grant cycle.
- The Art and Change Grant is not for organizations, corporations, or fundraising activities.
- The Art and Change Grant cannot be used for activities that begin prior to when the grant is announced.
- You are eligible to apply if you:
- Live in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
- Are at least 18 years old
- Identify as a woman and/or trans person
- Have a Change Partner
- You may not apply if you:
- Are a full-time student in an arts degree program
- Do not have a Change Partner
- Have an active Art and Change Grant project
- Have received Art and Change Grants totaling $2,500 in the current year
- Have received a 2019 or 2020 Leeway Transformation Award
- Have not turned in all reports due from previous Leeway grants and awards.
For more information, visit https://www.leeway.org/grants/art_and_change_grants/