$780,000 in new Knight Foundation funding hits the Philly arts scene

From 2011 to 2013, an annual cycle of matching grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation benefited organizations across the city, and now, the Knight Foundation’s 2014 grants focus on grassroots-style, artist-driven groups and individual artists.

“Our city has a wealth of creative thinkers, makers and energetic doers,” says Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Philly’s program director for the Knight Foundation.

The money will bolster the true diversity of Philly’s arts scene for all ages and backgrounds, with grant winners including the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Filadelphia Latin American Film Festival, Mighty Writers, the Philly Youth Poetry Movement, and many more.

For a full list of this year’s Knight winners and their projects, from subway tunnel art installations to a pop-up opera about the life of Andy Warhol, click here.