Deadline: 27-Sep-21
The Leeway Foundation is seeking applications for its 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 will 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.
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 and/or trans person
- Are working collaboratively with a social justice/cultural organization
- You are eligible to apply if you:
- 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.
- You are eligible to apply if your organization is:
For more information, visit https://www.leeway.org/grants/leeway_x_ipmf_media_artist_activist_residency/