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24 February 2022

Added Velocity 2021-2022 Awards Five Worthy Philadelphia Arts Projects $15,000 Each

With $15,000 in funding from Added Velocity, five previous grantees under the Velocity Fund initiative move their community projects forward this year. Added Velocity will allow these independent local artists to build on the success of their initial project grant to enhance the activist projects linked to neighborhoods and communities around the city. The artists, who mostly work without the support of an umbrella organization, use the funding to help stabilize and enhance their work.  The Velocity Fund is part of the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Added Velocity is funded by the William Penn Foundation. We encourage artists working in Philadelphia who wish to, or already do work with communities to apply to the Velocity Fund, which is the entry point for Added Velocity. The community need is great, and artists’ projects offer wonderful creative solutions. And the open call for 2022 Velocity Fund projects will launch in March, 2022.

2021-2022 Added Velocity projects:

  • Alumbra (Ana Cecilia Gonzalez*) – Alumbra will expand the scope of its community impact by collaborating with the youth to create a night time destination with a long-term light art installation.
  • Al Mudhif – A Confluence (Yaroub Al Obaidi*) – This project will dismantle and document Al Mudhif, a traditional Iraqi ceremonial structure made entirely out of phragmites reed, after parts of the structure were affected by the Ida hurricane, and then activate it for new audiences through digital resources and printing a catalog.
  • The Beardmobile (John Jarboe*) – The Beardmobile is a mobile performance and protest unit built into a 15 foot box truck.
  • Choreto (Diente Fo*) – Gente de Tierra reintroduced the abundance that lives within and around our Black and Brown community; and from this, for the next year, Casa Sabera will prioritize embracing our blessings, and honoring our ancestors.
  • Expanding Sanctuary (Kristal Sotomayor*) – Expanding Sanctuary is a (26 min) documentary about the campaign to end the sharing of the police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement led by Juntos and the Latinx immigrant community in South Philly.

(*denotes lead organizer of the project)

See Also

Grantees

The Velocity Fund awards grants to 12 Philadelphia-based art projects in its fourth year of re-granting.

5 October 2021

The Velocity Fund
Philadelphia Contemporary
Philadelphia, PA

Foundation

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Expands Its Regional Regranting Program and Appoints Khadija Nia Adell as Regional Re-granting Program Manager

15 October 2020

Foundation

The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts Commits $1.6 Million to Emergency Relief Funds

1 April 2020

Grantees

New! The Velocity Fund, artist grants in Philadelphia supporting cross-disciplinary approaches

16 March 2018

“I’m very proud to be affiliated with the Warhol Foundation which has done so much to ensure the continuity of visual art in the fabric of our society. I have no doubt Andy is smiling from somewhere up above.”

Jon Lee, Former Board Member, Founder and Former Principal, Lee Capital Holdings

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