Velocity Fund Info Session @ William Way

Learn more about the Velocity Fund's grant application — open now through November 24! We'll cover eligibility, all parts of the application, selection criteria — and any of your questions.

Applications open: September 16 – November 24, 2024

This Info Session is co-hosted by William Way LGBT Community Center. Please email [email protected] with any accessibility requests or questions. Browse our other Info Sessions here.

The William Way LGBT Community Center seeks to engage and support the diverse LGBTQIA+ communities in the greater Philadelphia area through arts & culture, empowerment, and community connections. Regular art exhibitions in the Center's lobby showcase the work of locally- and nationally-known LGBT artists. The Art Gallery's exhibits, which rotate with new bi-monthly shows, include opening receptions that usually take place at the start of each exhibition.

Accessibility Details: This event will be in-person. Masks are optional. The main entrance includes 7 stairs. There is a wheelchair accessible ramp at the back of the building and this entrance can be made available upon request. The event will take place in a meeting room on the first floor, where there is a single-stall accessible restroom.

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The Velocity Fund offers twelve Philadelphia-based artists and collectives $5000 to develop and present new projects — particularly those that are experimental in genre, collaborative in practice, grounded in their communities, and thoughtful in their impact. Independent artists, collaborative groups, and non-incorporated collectives are welcome to apply.

The Velocity Fund intends to directly support artists and arts-based cultural organizers who conduct their practice outside the studio, and who present them outside traditional art spaces. Velocity has funded multidisciplinary and varied work that use visual arts — including (but never limited to) printmaking, performance, video, puppetry, sculpture, and curation — to expand, archive, learn with, and lift up their publics.

The Velocity Fund is a Regional Regranting Program supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and hosted by Asian Arts Initiative.

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