Announcing the 2021 Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency
The Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency invites women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media-based artists to work in close collaboration with local social-justice focused or cultural organizations to document, reframe, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns addressed by the organization. This residency works to reveal and extend the ways that artists and artistic processes work within organizations to achieve social change.
Media artists and organizations will apply collaboratively with proposals for the work of an artist embedded within an organization for one year. The residency will be awarded to three artists this year with funding awarded to both the artist ($15,000) and the organization ($10,000).
What does "media arts" mean?
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
- • new media
- • multimedia and multidisciplinary works
Just be sure to be clear about how the use of media is at the core of your proposal!
Artist Eligibility
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 and/or trans* person
• Are working collaboratively with an organization
You may not apply if you:
• Do not have a collaborating organization
• Are on the staff or board of the collaborating organization
• Are a full-time student in a degree arts program
• Have received a 2020 Transformation Award
• Have been invited to Stage 2 of the 2021 Transformation Award
• Have not turned in all reports due from previous Leeway grants and residencies
Organization Eligibility
You are eligible to apply if your organization is:
• A social justice focused or cultural organization with a 501(c)3 status and/or fiscal sponsorship
• a cultural organization must have a social-justice intention as part of its mission and work with communities that are often ignored, silenced, and/or marginalized because of who they are (for example - people of color; immigrants; queer people; trans* and/or gender non folks; poor and working-class people; people with disabilities; etc.).
• Located in Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County
• Working with an operating budget less than $1.5M
• Collaborating with a media artist
You may not apply if your organization:
• Does not have a collaborating media artist
• Is collaborating with a media artist who is on the staff or board of your organization
• If your operating budget is greater than $1.5M
Before Applications Open...
• Dream about the possibilities!
• Start exploratory conversations with possible collaborators
• Be inspired by other media artists doing amazing work with organizations, like Complex Movements' Beware of the Dandelions ; Tourmaline's Pleasure Gardening ; and so many more
• Watch Leeway's website and social media (https://www.instagram.com/leewayfound/) for updates!
