Pushing for Social Change
Seattle’s Fox Whitney seeks fellowship to amplify his work
By Seattle Mag June 23, 2025
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2025 issue of Seattle magazine.
A Seattle artist is among 50 finalists in a prestigious national Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists program.
Fox Whitney, a multidisciplinary artist working in dance, music, film, video, theater, writing, and visual art, is seeking to be among 25 artists who receive an award of $31,000 to use at their discretion. Sixty-one artists have received the Fellowship since the program was created in 2018.
Whitney, an artist-in-residence at Seattle’s On the Boards — an organization that invests in contemporary performing artists — focuses his projects around his queer and transgender point of view. He founded the QT interdisciplinary performance project Gender Tender in 2012. His work has been commissioned and produced by the likes of Henry Art Gallery, On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center and the Seattle International Dance Festival, among others.
Winners will be announced in October.
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