upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
The Impact Kickstart call for applications is now open! The program offers partnership development, strategic support and at least $25,000 in impact campaign funding to underrepresented documentary directors with feature films that hold great promise to catalyze action and address critical issues of our time. [learn more]
Local multimedia artist Nicole A. Ayers is making more than a decade of audiovisual archives available to see in "The William Penn Project," her home movie day exhibition preserving the student culture, history and significance of the now demolished William Penn High School building on North Broad street, and its impact on the lives of students, parents, teachers, local businesses and neighbors alike. The exhibit will be on display at The Madlab Post studio in the Bok building (1901 S. 9th Street) and available to view by appointment only until March 31, 2021. [learn more]
Twelve Gates Arts presents Tania El Khoury's Stories of Refuge, an immersive video installation inviting viewers into the lives of Syrian asylum seekers. [learn more]
Distance≠Time, co-presented by Black Quantum Futurism (co-founded by Leeway Board Member Rasheedah Phillips), is an immersive multimedia exhibition investigating the relationships between science and the self. The show runs from September 6 to October 14 at the Icebox Project Space. [learn more]
Tayarisha Poe (ACG '14) debuts "Selah and the Spades" online on December 13. [learn more]
Philadelphia artist Teresa Jaynes (WOO '02, '00) presents The Moon Reader, a multimedia installation raised-letter writing system challenging participants' ideas about visual culture, this September and October. [learn more]