• © Katie Orlinsky. Winner of the US$20,000 Alexia 2019 Professional Grant to support her project, “Chasing Winter”. The project examines how climate change is affecting communities across Alaska and changing their relationship to animals and the land.
    © Katie Orlinsky. Winner of the US$20,000 Alexia 2019 Professional Grant to support her project, “Chasing Winter”. The project examines how climate change is affecting communities across Alaska and changing their relationship to animals and the land.
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Call for sumissions for US$20,000 Alexia Grant

2 September 2020

The call for submissions for the Alexia Professional and Student Grants opens on 14 September, with a deadline of 5 October set for the 2020 competition. The grants help visual journalists produce projects that inspire change by addressing topics that are socially significant. Given the impact of the pandemic on those in the visual storytelling profession, organisers have reduced the entry fee from US$50 to US$20, and the grant money may now be spent on whatever the recipient deems to be most necessary, as opposed to the expectation that it to go toward producing a proposed project.

© Isabella Bernal. Winner of the Alexia 2019 Student Grant. The grant went towards her project, “As American as Apple Pie” – about people traveling from Latin America to work on orchards in New Jersey.
© Isabella Bernal. Winner of the Alexia 2019 Student Grant. The grant went towards her project, As American as Apple Pie – about people traveling from Latin America to work on orchards in New Jersey.

The recipient of The Alexia Professional Grant will receive US$20,000 for the production of the proposed project, or, this year, to be used as the recipient deems most appropriate. The recipient of The Alexia Student Grant will receive a fellowship for tuition and student fees to enroll in three courses during a semester at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School along with a US$1,000 stipend. They will also assume the paid position of research assistant for The Alexia director at The Newhouse School during the semester.

Follow the link to learn more about the Alexia Grants, including how to apply: alexiafoundation.org/grants.

 

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