Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia 2012 Winners

The Knight Arts Challenge officially announced the 35 ideas which will receive $2.76 million to support their organizational ideas. Now in its second year, the community-wide challenge funds the best ideas for engaging and enriching Philadelphia through the arts. Emerging from more than 1,260 submissions, the 2012 winners represent a wide range of Philadelphia’s creative thinkers. Always a great cause to fund arts organizations in Philadelphia, the awards will either engage new audiences and keep art alive in our city.

This year's winners include:

• Late-Night Museum Happenings Encourage New Audiences
  Project: Midnight Madness
  Recipient: Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation
  Award: $350,000 - To engage younger audiences in the visual arts through a series of simultaneous late-night happenings at three of Philadelphia’s premier art museums
  
• “Pop-Up” Performances Bring Latin Jazz to Philly Neighborhoods Project: AMLA Flash Jazz Mobile
  Recipient: Artists and Musicians of Latin America
  Award: $35,000 - To cultivate new audiences for Latin jazz by presenting “pop-up” performances by local artists using a portable stage

For a full list of winners visit knightarts.org.