News

January 10, 2014

Residency Opportunity at Women’s Studio Workshop

Eight week residency grants are available for artists to create new public art projects for our town, Rosendale, New York. Temporary sculpture...
December 20, 2013

Winter Holiday Hours

In observance of the winter holidays, our office will be closed Monday, December 23 through Friday, January 3. The office will reopen on Monday...
December 17, 2013

2013 Leeway Transformation Awards Announced

PHILADELPHIA—Eight artists and cultural producers representing four Philadelphia neighborhoods and Delaware County have been named 2013 Leeway...
December 14, 2013

Desi Seck featured in Philadelphia Inquirer

For the last month, the cast and crew of Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters rehearsed five days a week at Rutgers-Camden's Gordon Theater, transforming it...
December 8, 2013

Emergent Strategies: Speculative Fiction & Radical Organizing

Join Leeway Foundation on December 8 to welcome writer and cultural organizer Adrienne Maree Brown for a lively conversation inspired by the work of...
December 6, 2013

Sara Zia Ebrahimi Featured in Chestnut Hill Local

Sara (Zia Ebrahimi) Hughes, 36, who lives in Wyndmoor with her husband, Gralin Hughes (www.gralinhughes.com), a video artist and freelance...
November 20, 2013

Fruitvale Station, Trayvon and Beyond: Black Male Storytelling, Movies, Media

On Saturday, August 17 at 4:00pm at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut Street) join GriotWorks, ReelBlack Presents and Scribe Video Center for a panel...
November 13, 2013

Yaba Blay featured in Philly Weekly and Totally Biased

Drexel prof Yaba Blay's striking new photo book "One Drop" explores how a wide range of different skin tones affects Americans' personal identities...
November 4, 2013

Ethics And Values Of Community Arts Practice Workshop

Led by renown author and practitioner, Arlene Goldbard, this hands-on workshop will help participants identify their own values and ethical...
October 18, 2013

August 2013 Art and Change Grants Announced

The Leeway Foundation announces today $52,500 in grants to 21 women and transgender artists and cultural producers living in the six-county...