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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...
November 19, 2012

Che Gossett and Ben Singer speak at Yale

On Friday, November 9, thirty or so Yale students and community members crowded together in a classroom in William Harkness Hall for what was billed...
November 17, 2012

The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World

Philadelphia-based artist Linda Lee Alter founded the Leeway Foundation in 1993 with the goal of supporting women artists in the Philadelphia area...
October 19, 2012

Crossroads: A Celebration of Latina Artists opens October 19

The Philadelphia-based Leeway Foundation supports women and transgender artists who create social change. Our fall exhibition, CROSSROADS: A...
October 14, 2012

Stitchin'

Come out and work on your craft and join us for a bit of ‘ravelry’! This is an informal fiber and crafts social group for all skill levels in...
October 4, 2012

August 2012 Art and Change Grants Announced

The Leeway Foundation announces today $44,380 in grants to 18 women and transgender artists living in the six-county Philadelphia area (including...
September 30, 2012

Using Online Tools for Fundraising

Online fundraising campaigns are spreading around social networks to raise money for creative projects, activist campaigns, or personal needs like...
September 28, 2012

Candy Depew featured in Philadelphia Inquirer

A few years ago, Candy Depew changed her job title from “artist” to “designer.” “I got tired of that concept of the starving artist,” she says, “and...