Our 39 new grants represent an investment in a thriving and diverse cultural ecology in Philadelphia.
“To me, writing is both a practice of synthesizing human experience through language and interrogating the role of that synthesis in the experience of being alive.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, Writer
Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis
Temple Contemporary
“My primary artistic concerns are world building, autonomy, and individual sovereignty—specifically through a Black American lens.”
— Vitche-Boul Ra, Performance artist