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Diaspora Productions
James Jackson
Kate Raines
Manuel Alé Vasquez
Natasha Cohen-Carol
Terrell Halsey
Grants, Residencies, and Fellowships
Bread & Roses Community Fund
A grassroots organization that offers potential funding for artist-activist projects for individuals and organizations, but with more of a focus in community organizing and activism in particular.
Illuminate the Arts
Offers microgrants for independent artists and general operating support for arts organizations.
Leah Stein Dance Company
Offers residencies for artists who work in dance, theatre, and performance art.
Leeway Foundation
A granting organization that offers several opportunities for funding for women and trans* artists.
Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF)
Funded by the City of Philadelphia, PCF offers grants for funding for newer arts organizations and collectives.
Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR)
Offers residencies for artists who wish to use recycled materials for their projects.
The Awesome Foundation
Offers monthly $1,000 microgrants to support projects across all disciplines and industries in Philadelphia.
Spaces/Organizations for Professional Development
CultureWorks
A co-working space for arts organizations that can also be used by independent artists.
Headlong
A dance-theater space that supports performance research, and also features a performance institute for independent performance artists.
PhillyCAM
An organization that provides resources for film, video, and broadcasting, including public access channels in local TV.
REC Philly
A co-working/studio space that also offers workshops and opportunities for independent artists.
Scribe Video Center
Specializing in film and video art, Scribe Video Center offers a variety of workshops and opportunities for emerging and experienced artists.
Theatre Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s support organization for theatre artists, which presents a variety of professional development and promotional opportunities.
Vision Driven Consulting
Offers free workshops, hosts co-working groups, and opportunities for early-career artists.
Specialized Services for Artists
Art-Reach
A service organization for artists and organizations seeking to make their work more accessible for disabled audiences. It’s recommended that you reach out to them earlier rather than later in your process!
Hands UP Productions
Offers specialized ASL interpretation for performance projects, with a variety of options for collaborative styles.
Partners for Sacred Spaces
Provides opportunities for artists to use unoccupied sacred spaces such as churches or congregations for a variety of purposes, ranging from rehearsals, performance, or office space.
Tax Prep for Working Artists
Akeem Davis
Amy Smith
Christianne Kapps
Juliana Flower
Logan Cryer
Maria Möller
Tim White

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Upcoming Events

Poetry

Gabardine

Feb. 14 – Feb. 16, 2025
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Current Projects

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Projects

Undue Burden

Oct. 19 – Nov. 23, 2024
Projects

Blood Baby

June 2024
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Nov 2024

(WHYY/NPR) A digital archive of Philly artists with disabilities finds physical form at the Painted Bride

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Nov 2024

(Artblog) Hook&Loop’s community alchemy in ‘Undue Burden’ at Painted Bride Art Center

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Nov 2024

(Metro Philadelphia) Painted Bride’s art workshop series celebrates disabled Philadelphians

Education & Outreach
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Oct 2024

Recap: Fall Festival @ the Creek (Resistance Garden)

Photos by Cassie Hill We had a sweet time supporting Fall Festival @ the Creek, the first annual autumnal celebration at CommUnity Garden @ the Creek on 47th and Brown! This free, family-oriented and multi-generational festival included opportunities to play, create art, eat fresh food, walk the labyrinth, and… Read More
A picture of a collage of various artworks by Vinetta Miller. The background is purple. From top left: an orange and white fish with white and blue on its fins. The fish is blowing blue bubbles. Next to the drawing of the fish is a photograph of Vinetta’s black and white cat, Benjamin, seen here from behind as he relaxes in the “loaf” position. Next to the cat is a piece of art that looks like a person on their side, with pink skin, purple pants, and orange hair. In the next row of art, directly underneath is a Black person with yellow hair, blue eyes, red lips, and light purple clothing. To the right is a photograph of a tote bag with a diamond-shaped image in abstract green and blue coloring. Next to that is a portrait of a person with brown skin and grey hair and clothing on a pink background. The final piece in this row is a tiny picture of a tote bag with yellow dots around a painting of two people dressed in semi-formal attire. In the final row of the collage is another picture of Benjamin, Vinetta’s cat, this time from the front. Next to Benjamin is a cranberry-colored shirt with a drawing of a person’s head and hair in a type of bleached white. Finally, in the center of the picture is a bunch of baby photos of Vinetta, in sepia-tone, black and white, and color.
Education & Outreach
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Oct 2024

Access Landing Page for “Undue Burden”

ACCESS LANDING PAGE By Hook&Loop, for the “Undue Burden” residency We wrote the Access Artistry Manifesto to name our intentions and grounding philosophy around accessibility [read here]. It is incomplete, imperfect, and in process, just like us, and aims to present accessibility as art rather than as a rote,… Read More
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Oct 2024

Announcing our 2024-2025 Theme and Fall Programming!

Announcing Our 2024-2025 Theme: “Movement. Makers. Memory.” Philadelphia is a city in motion. Movements take on many forms – from daily commutes and neighborhood displacement to social justice initiatives and the movement of culture between one generation and another. Within these movements there are Makers – artists, leaders, and experimenters… Read More
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Oct 2024

Recap: Telling Our Stories from “Back in the Day” Memory Salon

We had a lovely and meaningful story-sharing circle at our latest Voices of 52nd Street: Then & Now Memory Salon, on “Telling Our Stories from ‘Back in the Day.'” What was the neighborhood like when folks like John Coltrane, Gus Lacy, Foo Foo Ragan, Lee Morgan, and community activist… Read More
This is a picture of Pamela Price and her friend Eric. Pam is a white person wearing an orange and black shirt and gold necklace and earrings. Her hair is adorned with white braids pulled up into a bun on top of her head — one braid in the front is red. Pam is also wearing a turquoise blanket. Eric, a Black man, is wearing a tan shirt and dark blue suit jacket. Both Eric and Pam are smiling wide.
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Oct 2024

Painted Bride Presents Communal Archive & Arts Workshop Series Celebrating Disabled Philadelphians

Painted Bride Presents Communal Archive & Arts Workshop Series Celebrating Disabled Philadelphians Artist collective Hook&Loop in residence at the Bride’s West Philadelphia location from Oct. 19 – Nov. 23, 2024 Philadelphia, PA (October 4, 2024) – Painted Bride presents “Undue Burden” (Oct. 19 – Nov. 23, 2024), a residency by… Read More
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Oct 2024

Gratitudes for “Undue Burden”

UNDUE BURDEN is deeply grateful to the Painted Bride for their support of this project and their investment in the Disabled creative community. Many thanks to Leeway Foundation, Velocity Fund, Cedar Crest College, and Bartol Foundation for past and present financial support for UNDUE BURDEN’s digital Disability archive and related… Read More
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Sep 2024

Access Manifesto for “Undue Burden”

An Access Manifesto, from the artists of Undue Burden: This is an Access Portal. We are access artists.   Beyond legal mandates, compliance, afterthoughts, Access is Art!   Access space. Many millions of people are newly disabled. We meet this emergency with emergence. We build ramps over stairs. We… Read More
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Amalia Colón-Nava (she/they)
Resistance Garden Project Manager

Amalia is a farmer and multi-disciplinary artist that loves to move. She joined as a founding member of Dirtbaby Farm in 2021. She works for the Painted Bride as the project manager for the Resistance Garden Project. This project works with urban farms/gardens, artists and foragers to expand agricultural knowledge and our relationship with the land. Her passion for urban agriculture stems from the deep belief that we must heal our severed connection with the land on both a personal and political level in order to save our planet from the existential threat of climate change. She is noticing cycles of change and moving through life infusing her love for nurturing the earth with her passion for dance, care, play and sensation.

Caitlin Green (she/they)
Program Committee

Caitlin Green is a Philadelphia-based dance artist with a background in dance/movement therapy (R-DMT). In her work, she tends to concentrate on the body’s role in wellness, individuality, and expressions of personal and collective narratives. As a freelance dance artist, Caitlin has choreographed and co-created works featured in Philly Fringe Festival 2019, RAW Artist showcase (Baltimore), EMERGE Earthdance multidisciplinary artist residency, the Painted Bride Art Center’s artist residency, Building Bridges, and Bodymeld’s GWYN artist residency. She is the curator and facilitator of a workshop series “Dancing to Transgress: lessons from bell hooks” that questions traditional educational settings and challenges today’s teachers, teaching artists, activists, and community leaders to re-imagine what a successful and inclusive learning environment can look like, and convener of “Our Embodied Impulses” which is a collaborative project for movement artists to be the co-creators of dances, using movement scores that explore the interconnected nature of individual and collective restoration. Caitlin is a teaching artist with Dancing Classrooms Philly (DCP), The Village of Arts and Humanities, and BuildaBridge International.

Carl(os) Roa (they/them)
Program Manager

Projects

Resistance Garden project

Critically examining and redefining our relationships with nature, farming, food politics, and the historical use of plants and herbs across different cultures.

 

Running August – October 2022

Call for Artists

We values artists and their role as carriers of culture and tradition and guides to living creatively. Check out our current opportunities to develop new programming that engages with communities.