Lilla Jewel Awards Grant

Lilla Jewel Awards Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Seeding Justice
Amount: US $10,000
Last Updated: March 31, 2026

Summary

The Lilla Jewel Awards support Oregon-based artists of marginalized genders, promoting social change through their work. Established in 1997, the awards offer $10,000 to selected artists, emphasizing those engaged in social justice movements. Eligible applicants must be Oregon residents, at least 18 years old, and of marginalized gender identities. The awards aim to amplify diverse voices historically overlooked in traditional art institutions, fostering a more inclusive artistic landscape.

Overview

Lilla Jewel Awards Women and folks of marginalized genders have been overlooked, excluded, and disregarded by traditional art institutions for centuries. The Lilla Jewel Award—named in honor of artist, radical feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel—was created to address these inequities by resourcing and amplifying Oregon-based artists of marginalized genders who advance a social change message through their work. Created in 1997, the Lilla Jewel Awards have funded dozens of poets, choreographers, singers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and other artists embedded in our social justice movements. The award supports artists with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Process This award specifically seeks to support and recognize artists through an unrestricted and open award, not necessarily a particular art piece or project. We want to reward and invest in artists as activists who contribute to, elevate, educate within, and lend support to Oregon’s social, racial, environmental, economic, disability, and gender justice movements in Oregon. Each year, the Lilla Jewel Award Committee—composed of former Lilla Jewel Award winners— selects one or more artists to receive an award. Awards are $10,000 per artist and if selected, artists may serve in the Lilla Jewel Award Committee.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible for an award, applicants must:Be Oregon residents;Be at least 18 years of age; andBe of a marginalized gender, including trans and cis women, trans men, nonbinary people, gender non-conforming people, intersex people, and people of all genders that have been historically underrepresented and/or oppressed by structures of power.