News

February 8, 2013

Lorelei Narvaja featured in Apiary Magazine

“Writing to Reach You”, made possible by the Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Program [sic], took place on Wednesday, January 20, 2013 at the...
February 1, 2013

Executive Director Denise Brown featured in Philadelphia Gay News

Denise Brown’s bio contains so many listings, you would think you were reading about five different women — but it’s all Brown. As if being executive...
January 23, 2013

Understanding Taxes for Artists

Whether you’re getting grants, selling or performing art privately and/or self employed you still have to file taxes. But what are the best filing...
January 20, 2013

Poet & Activist Sonia Sanchez at Peace Ball

The poet and activist Sonia Sanchez reads from her poem, "Morning Song and Evening Walk for Martin Luther King." Sanchez, a leading figure in the...
January 8, 2013

MamaCITA Artists profiled by WPHL17

Mothers who have lost children to violence are the inspiration for the art installation, One Year. The exhibit is open through February 8th at The...
January 6, 2013

Mia McKenzie's column in the Lambda Literary Review

“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In...
December 18, 2012

2012 Leeway Transformation Awards Announced

Eight artists representing six Philadelphia neighborhoods and several counties in the Delaware Valley have been named 2012 Leeway Transformation Award...
December 12, 2012

MamaCita's One Year Project featured on WHYY's NewsWorks

It's up to three hundred and eleven. That's how many homicide victims there have been in Philadelphia this year as of Thursday, and that's how many...
December 1, 2012

Aishah Shahidah Simmons interviews tiona.m. for The Feminist Wire

This documentary is not a Hollywood fabricated fantasy. Nor is it a representation of every single Black lesbian. However, through interviewing over...
November 20, 2012

Leeway Announces First Art+Technology Residency

The Leeway Foundation announces its first residency award, the Art+Technology Residency, a collaboration with Breadboard and NextFab Studio. The first...