Velocity Fund Info Session (In-Person @ DVAA)

Learn more about the Velocity Fund's grant application — open from September 22–November 22, 2026! We'll cover eligibility, all parts of the application, selection criteria — and any of your questions.

This In-Person Info Session is co-hosted by Da Vinci Art Alliance, and will be given in English. ASL Info Session recording is available upon request! Please email info@velocityfund.org with any accessibility requests or questions.

Can't make it to this Info Session? Browse our other Info Sessions options here.

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About our Site Partner: Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA) is an intergenerational artist collaborative that promotes creativity as a tool to build collective resilience. Founded by Italian Immigrants in 1931, our work continues to support marginalized artists and connect disparate Greater Philadelphia communities across socio-economic and cultural barriers. Our exhibitions, workshops, mentorship programs, and creative partnerships envision a future where people use art to build new, equitable worlds.

Accessibility Info: DVAA is a historic row home in the Bella Vista neighborhood. We are not yet wheelchair accessible. (We are working towards becoming ADA accessible by 2027!) Da Vinci is a three floor gallery with narrow staircases. It is 5 steps up to the first floor level, and 14 steps from the first to second floor, where the gender-neutral bathroom is located. Da Vinci has masks and COVID tests available at our events.

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The Velocity Fund offers 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. 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.

The Velocity Fund is a Regional Regranting Program supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and hosted by Asian Arts Initiative.