Deadline: 15-May-22
Applications are now open for Leeway Transformation Award (LTA) to provide unrestricted annual awards to women and trans 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.
The award 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.
Funding Information
The Transformation Award is a $15,000 unrestricted award (it is not project-based) open to women and trans people working in any art form.
Eligibility Criteria
- Transformation Award applicants may apply for and receive the Art and Change Grant and/or the Window of Opportunity Grant in the same year.
- Transformation Award applicants may not apply for the Media Artist + Activist Residency in the same year.
- If you receive a Transformation Award, you may not apply for the Art and Change Grant for the next two years, and/or Media Artist + Activist Residency during your award year.
- You are eligible to apply if you:
- Have lived for the past two years or more (since May 2020) in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
- Are at least 18 years old
- Identify as a woman, trans, and/or gender nonconforming person
- Have been creating art for social change for the past five years or more
Criteria
They encourage you to apply if you are a woman, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artist who:
- Creates art for social change that impacts a larger group, audience, or community.
- Has been creating art for social change for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to this work.
- Has financial need and limited or no access to other financial resources.
- Are at least 18 years old
- Has lived for the past two or more years in greater Philadelphia: Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County.
For more information, visit https://www.leeway.org/grants/leeway_transformation_award/