Community Arts Projects
Artreach India offers grants for community art projects around India. In keeping with Artreach's aim to provide marginalised communities access to the arts, we are especially interested in supporting projects that work with displaced and disadvantaged communities and address socio-economic inequalities.
While we are interested in receiving proposals for new initiatives, we recognise that many practitioners receive grants to start new projects, but are then unable to sustain their work once their funding runs out. We provide funding for ongoing projects to enable the long-term engagement required for community art.
Artreach India offers grants for community art projects around India. In keeping with Artreach's aim to provide marginalised communities access to the arts, we are especially interested in supporting projects that work with displaced and disadvantaged communities and address socio-economic inequalities.
While we are interested in receiving proposals for new initiatives, we recognise that many practitioners receive grants to start new projects, but are then unable to sustain their work once their funding runs out. We provide funding for ongoing projects to enable the long-term engagement required for community art.
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Current Project
Urdu Park Axial Margins Grantee: Revue (Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee) Since March 2015 artist collective Revue has worked with 16 women at the SPYM Shelter in Urdu Park, Jama Masjid. The women are homeless and support multiple children on as little as Rs. 300 a week earned from begging. With Sreejata they have explored how they negotiate changes in their lives, how they adjust to Urdu Park and its environs, and how they cope with the pressures of living life in a public space. The project also looks at how the women deal with shifts in personal identity, their aspirations, fears, and vulnerabilities.
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Applications are on a rolling basis. To apply write to director.artreach@gmail.com. For ongoing projects, please include documentation of the work done so far, as well as links to blogs and articles about the project.
