The Art and Change Grant (ACG) provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Donor Name: Leeway Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Selected Counties
City: Philadelphia
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $2,500
Details:
Leeway 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.
Categories
Crafts and Textiles
- Book art
- Costume design
- Crocheting
- Doll making
- Fashion design
- Furniture making Knitting
- Puppetry
- Quilting
- Scenic design
- Sex toys
- Weaving
Folk Arts
- Capoeira
- Culinary art
- Hair braiding
- Heritage gardening
- Storytelling
- Traditional dance
- Traditional music
Media Arts
- Animation
- Audio
- Film
- Interactive design
- Multimedia
- New media
- Podcast Video
- Web-based work
Music
- Composition
- Deejaying
- Hip-hop
- Instrumental performance
- Jazz
- Opera
- Producing
- Rapping
- Singing
- Songwriting
- Vocal performance
Performance
- Cartoon/comic illustration
- Digital art
- Drawing
- Graphic design
- Illustration
- Installation
- Mixed media
- Murals
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Screenprinting
- Sculpture
Literary Arts
- Creative nonfiction
- Creative writing
- Playwriting
- Poetry
- Prose
- Short stories
Impact of Art with Vision
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 engage.
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.
- 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 completed prior to when the grant is announced.
- The Art and Change Grant is not intended to support the creation of residencies/apprenticeships unless it is clear how it will (1) move the applicant’s own artistic practice forward and (2) engage the community-at-large with a socially engaged project.
- Art and Change Grants are not intended to fund the same project for which you received a prior Leeway Grant. However, you may apply for different phases of a previous funded project.
- You may apply for and receive an Art for Change Grant, Transformation Award, and/or Media Artist + Activist Residency in the same year.
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, trans, and/or gender nonconforming person
- Have a Change Partner
For more information, visit Leeway Foundation.