Deadline: 06-Oct-2024
The Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation is inviting applications for the Socially Engaged Art Support Grant Program.
Socially Engaged Art Support Grant will support Socially Engaged Art projects that will take place in Japan and commit to the community and society; implement activities together with communities and residents; and aim to build and demonstrate models of a better society. This would further enhance in-depth relationships between art culture and the society and will contribute in cultivating higher cultural developments in Japan.
Funding Information
- Grant amount and number of grantees:
- JPY 1,000,000 to 2,000,000: 1 grantee
- JPY 300,000 to 500,000: approximately 2 to 10 grantees
- Grant Period: From April 1st 2025 through March 31st 2026
- Grant amount will be based on project proposals. Grant amount may be reduced on occasions of changes occurring from the project proposal.
Eligible Projects
- Applications need to fulfill requirements below to be acknowledged legitimate:
- Projects applying strikingly new methods or ways of expression
- Socially Engaged Art projects that would be newly implemented in Japan
- Projects that would become a catalyst towards social changes
- Projects aiming to build and demonstrate models of a better society
- Projects with artists taking initiatives as its leader
- Dialogue based projects which focus on building continuous partner relationships with communities
- Projects which include a collaborative production process with participants
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications made by individuals and organizations fulfilling below would be acknowledged legitimate:
- All age ranges, all nationalities
- Artists and Art organizations
Ineligible
- Projects based on production for an exhibition, a theatrical act, or an exhibition piece
- Projects with outcomes unrelated to local communities
- Projects that have been already shown in exhibitions (or would be shown)
- Projects based on artist-in-residence/studios (would be accepted in case the project fulfills everything listed in eligible project content,” and if the artist-in-residence/studio outcome would directly relate to the grant project)
For more information, visit Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation.