The Velocity Fund

Overview

_Applications Open FALL 2025_

The Velocity Fund offers twelve Philadelphia-based artists and collectives $5000 to develop and present new projects — particularly those that are experimental in genre, collaborative in practice, grounded in their communities, and thoughtful in their impact. Independent artists, collaborative groups, and non-incorporated collectives are welcome to apply.

The Velocity Fund intends to directly support artists and arts-based cultural organizers who conduct their practice outside the studio, and who present them outside traditional art spaces. A Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Velocity has funded multidisciplinary and varied work that use visual arts — including (but never limited to) printmaking, performance, video, puppetry, sculpture, and curation — to expand, archive, learn with, and lift up their publics.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Staff at Asian Arts Initiative are eligible to apply to the Velocity Fund, as long as their proposed project does not take place at Asian Arts Initiative.
* Tenants of Asian Arts Initiative are eligible to apply to the Velocity Fund, and proposed projects may occur at their own rented spaces.
* Lead applicants can submit one proposal during an application cycle. You can apply as the lead applicant on one project, and still be listed as a collaborator on other applications.

Ineligibility

* Individual artists seeking support to produce their own work without public outcome; or for the express purpose of covering travel expenses, renting studio space, or purchasing equipment are not encouraged to apply.
* The Velocity Fund does not provide grants to reimburse or resolve projects that have already begun.