In Round 7 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program, Southern Exposure awarded $70,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging from $2,400 to $5,000.

Round 7 Grantees: Aggregate Space Gallery, Always Get On the Boat, Bay Area Public School, Black Hole Cinematheque, Black Salt Collective, Doubt It / Talk Series, Important Projects, Interface Gallery, Little Paper Planes / LPP+ Residency, Mandala Project, OGAARD - Textile Work, Queens of the Castro, Savernack Street, Shapeshifters Cinema, SPLITS and Sudo Room.

An outside panel selected the 2013 grantees. Jurors included Christian Frock, founder and director of Invisible Venue, a curatorial enterprise focused on presenting artwork in unexpected settings; Emma Spertus, co-founder of Real Time & Space, a studio and artist residency in Oakland; and Sara Velas, founder and director of Velaslavasay Panorama, a Los Angeles non-profit exhibition hall, theatre and garden.