The Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) provides grants of $25,000 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.
Donor Name: Leeway Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Bucks County (PA), Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA), Philadelphia County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
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. Media artists and organizations apply collaboratively with proposals for a project that embeds the artist in the work of the organization for one year.
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 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, misogyny, ageism, ableism, or other oppressions
Question mainstream culture and beliefs
Shifts 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 consent for engagement is mutual, as is the benefit for yourself as an artist and the community you are engaging.

Leeway understands Media Arts as an expansive category including but not limited to:

film and video (narrative, documentary, experimental)
audio
podcast
 installation/projection
animation
interactive design
digital art
games/gaming
web-based content
multimedia/multi-disciplinary work

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 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, trans, and/or gender nonconforming person
Are working collaboratively with a social justice/cultural organization

Eligibility for Social Justice/Cultural Organization
You are eligible to apply if your organization is:

A social justice/cultural organization with a 501(c)3 status or fiscal sponsor
Located in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
Working with an operating budget less than $1.5M
Collaborating with a media artist

For more information, visit Leeway Foundation.