• The Dene M. Louchheim Fellowship is available to all faculty except painters.
• Applicants should have been employed as Fleisher Faculty at least during the previous 24-month period (June 2023– June 2025) and taught a minimum of two courses.
• Award amount is $1,000.
• Awardees shall use the funds to support investment in artist’s materials, the hiring of models, professional development, or work-related travel.
• Former recipients are not allowed to apply.
• Juror Information: Samantha M Connors lives in Philly creating work that examines and finds action points against capitalism's effect on our collective health and the condition of the world around us. Their work exists both within the studio where they create tactile sculptural forms based on documented objects and spaces in Philadelphia, and out in practice and partnership with neighbors creating spaces of care and connection. In 2014, they graduated with their BFA from Tyler School of Art, and have since completed residencies at Cassis Artist Residency in France, Ora Lerman Trust Soaring Gardens in Laceyville, PA, The Sable Project Residency in Stockbridge, VT, The 319 AIR at Pink Noise Projects in Philadelphia, PA, and Bischoff Inn in Tamaqua, PA. Samantha is the Executive Director of Da Vinci Art Alliance, an artist collaborative that uses art as a tool to build collective resilience and serve on the Leadership Team of Science Events, a project of the Experimental Practice team at the MIT Museum.

• The Fred and Naomi Hazel Award is for OIL PAINTERS ONLY.
• Applicants should have been employed as Fleisher Faculty at least during the previous 24-month period (June 2023– June 2025) and taught a minimum of two courses.
• Award amount is $1,000.
• Awardees shall use the funds to support investment in artist’s materials, the hiring of models, professional development, or work-related travel.
• Former recipients are not allowed to apply.
• ABOUT JUROR: Samantha M Connors lives in Philly creating work that examines and finds action points against capitalism's effect on our collective health and the condition of the world around us. Their work exists both within the studio where they create tactile sculptural forms based on documented objects and spaces in Philadelphia, and out in practice and partnership with neighbors creating spaces of care and connection. In 2014, they graduated with their BFA from Tyler School of Art, and have since completed residencies at Cassis Artist Residency in France, Ora Lerman Trust Soaring Gardens in Laceyville, PA, The Sable Project Residency in Stockbridge, VT, The 319 AIR at Pink Noise Projects in Philadelphia, PA, and Bischoff Inn in Tamaqua, PA. Samantha is the Executive Director of Da Vinci Art Alliance, an artist collaborative that uses art as a tool to build collective resilience and serve on the Leadership Team of Science Events, a project of the Experimental Practice team at the MIT Museum.

ColorWheels is Fleisher’s mobile art studio, launched in 2012 and delivering creative experiences directly to community members in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia.

The van is equipped with the tools and supplies needed for Fleisher’s teaching artists to guide community members in hands-on, culturally inspired mini-workshops, collaborative public art projects, and demonstrations of art techniques.