In Round 11 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program, Southern Exposure awarded $82,700 to 18 projects at levels ranging from $2,100 to $4,950.

18 recipients were selected from 124 applications: 100 Days Action, 67 Sueños Youth Collective: Healing Through Artivism, Barangay Broadside, Beyond the Studio, Círculo Tejido: Backstrap Club, Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists Working Group, Dar+Luz Collective, Future Relations: A Resource for Radical Teaching, Klanghaus, Low Light Darkroom/Black Hole Collective Lab, The Naming Gallery, Pure Futures, The Root Slam, Shapeshifters Cinema, SUN DSCNDNTS Present: Contagious Spirit, The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, Visitacion Valley Pop-Up Sculpture Garden, and We Only Want the Earth!

The 2017 grantees were selected by an outside panel of three artist organizers including seasoned grant administrator Jaime Cortez, Round 10 grantee Erina Alejo, and Lindsey Tingle, who will administer Philadelphia's new re-granting program next year.