News

August 2, 2013

Special Events at BlackStar Film Festival

Leeway in partnership with the 2013 BlackStar Film Festival presents three special programs: arts shorts at The Barnes Foundation, a screening of...
June 14, 2013

Trans Literary Salon

In conjunction with the 2013 Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, Leeway presents an open literary salon highlighting the work of inspiring trans...
June 12, 2013

Visibility Project: Portraits of Queer Asians and Asian Americans

The Leeway Foundation presents The Visibility Project an exhibit featuring over 30 photographs and videos of and by queer Asians and Asian Americans...
June 6, 2013

Program Assistant Che Gossett featured in the Philadelphia Gay News

Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a local AIDS activist who died in 2000, once regaled an interviewer with an amusing anecdote about his childhood in suburban...
June 2, 2013

LGBT Artist Panel at the Barnes

Join us at The Barnes Foundation where Leeway grantees will be featured on a panel discussing “Identity and Artistic Expression”. This special panel...
May 31, 2013

Shelley Spector review in Art in America

In this exhibition, titled "But Not As Much As Tomorrow," Shelley Spector conveyed her anxiety about 21st-century human consumption and waste. The...
May 22, 2013

Candy Coated featured in Philadelphia Weekly

Local multimedia artist Candy Coated isn’t one to do anything half-assed. If you give her a blank wall, she’s going to design the city’s first screen...
May 18, 2013

Spiral Q honors Leeway

On Saturday, May 18 Spiral Q presents, Q-LICIOUS: The Arts & Activism Academy Awards, celebrating remarkable individuals and organizations living and...
May 15, 2013

March 2013 Art and Change Grants Announced

The Leeway Foundation announces today $52,869 in grants to 28 women and transgender artists and cultural producers living in the six-county...
May 7, 2013

In Visible Skin Exhibit Featured in Philadelphia Gay News

Local artist Emily Smith Satis is using her talents as a painter to explore the transgender community in her exhibition “In Visible Skin: Portraits of...