Announcing the 2024 Media Artist + Activist Residencies

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PHILADELPHIA, PA — In the fourth year of the Media Artist + Activist Residency, Leeway Foundation is proud to announce $150,000 in funding to 6 women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media collaborations working with social justice/cultural organizations to document, reframe, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns of the organizations.

This year’s cohort of awardees share a focus on the importance of preservation and documentation as tools for restorative and liberatory practices addressing social issues impacting us on local, state, and global levels. The Media Artist + Activist 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.

Awardees will utilize a diverse range of media including audio, podcast, film, multimedia installations, and web-based content. Projects include but are not limited to: decarceration through the perspective of youth, documentation of Indigenous people in the Greater Philadelphia region, and combatting the dehumanization of Arab/SWANA and Muslim communities.

The 2024 Media Artist + Activist Residents are (in alphabetical order):

Gabby Jackson and Care, Not Control
Jacob Butterly and Put People First! PA
Keyssh Datts and Human Rights Coalition
Laura Deutch + Ella-Gabriel Mason and Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia
Lori Waselchuk and Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly, Inc.
Yaqeen Yamani + Nora Elmarzouky and CAIR Philadelphia

ABOUT THE MEDIA ARTIST + ACTIVIST RESIDENCY
Media Artist + Activist Residency applications are evaluated by an independent peer review panel. The 2024 review panel consisted of poet, historian, hip hop artivist, and media maker, Black Rapp M.A.D.U.S.A (MAR ’23); visual archival artist and filmmaker, Sofía Gallisá Muriente; and cultural worker and documentary cinematographer TK Dinh (ACG ’21).