In this 33-minute Artblog Radio episode, Roberta speaks with Quinha Faria and Tyler Burdenski, two (out of nine) of the people behind the award-winning community project ‘A Phonebook,’ an image-rich oral history of about 120 Philadelphia “mom and pop” businesses. ‘A Phonebook’ goes into second print this summer & will be available for free at select local shops.
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that our friends at The Velocity Fund have a new home with the collaborative and forward-thinking organization, Philadelphia Contemporary! We are delighted to see this funding source continue and look forward to seeing more exciting arts projects grow in Philadelphia!
Read More‘Added Velocity’ (from ‘The Velocity Fund’) supports VF awardees with even more funding so that they can expand their projects and serve more people in the Philadelphia community!
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund announces its 2020 awardees, 12 artists and groups that will create art all around Philadelphia working with communities and outside normal art venues.
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund gives money directly to Philadelphia Artists to Make Art, but the deadline of June 7, 2020, is fast approaching so don’t miss this opportunity.
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund announces the COVID-19 Artist Emergency Relief Fund for Philadelphia visual artists, with applications open today for the first round of $1,000 grants, to be selected by lottery.
Read MoreArtists, it’s Year Three of the the Velocity Fund, a great juried local funding opportunity, which funnels up to $5,000 directly to you for new experimental and collaborative projects in Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund announces the inaugural ‘Added Velocity’ awards of $15,000 each to 5 artist projects, to grow and develop their mission-driven Philadelphia initiatives.
Read MoreWe are always happy when we can say there’s new funding for artist projects in Philadelphia, and ‘Added Velocity,’ supported by the William Penn Foundation, does that – it greatly increases the funds available for Philadelphia artists’ projects.
Read MoreArtblog applauds this year’s 14 artist awardees and their projects, each receiving $5,000 under The Velocity Fund grant awards.
Read MoreIn this sponsored post, Roberta interviews Velocity Fund grantee Karina Puente about her collaborative project #sisterlyhistory, with Yolanda Wisher and Women of Color (WoC) entrepreneurs of Germantown.
Read MoreApiary Magazine is a community-spirited literary magazine now in its tenth year of publishing print copies and online editions with beautiful art, lively commentary, poetry and free-form writing.
Read MoreIn this first of three posts about active community art projects you should know about, Roberta writes about Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles’s People’s Paper Co-op project, Re-Entry Think Tank, supported by the Velocity Fund and an allied project, Women in Re-Entry.
Read MoreThe Velocity Fund gives money directly to Philadelphia Artists to Make Art, but the deadline is fast approaching so don’t miss this opportunity.
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