Deadline: 30-Nov-22
The Asia Culture Council is pleased to announce the Organization and Project Grants.
Organization and project grants are awarded primarily to support cultural exchange opportunities for specific project participants who will benefit from the experience through cultural immersion, research, specialized training, exchange of knowledge among peers, and other process-oriented activities. Project participants must be practicing artists, scholars, and/or arts professionals. Production-driven projects are not eligible, including touring, performances, and exhibitions.
Eligible Fields
- Archaeology
- Architecture(For design, aesthetic theory, and/or aesthetic history only; projects with an economic, social, scientific, or technological focus are not eligible)
- Art History
- Arts Administration
- Arts Criticism
- Conservation
- Crafts
- Curation
- Dance
- Ethnomusicology
- Film/Video/Photography
- Literature(For travel to/from Japan only)
- Museum Studies
- Music
- Theater
- Visual Art
ACC Support Services
- Support services are intended to enhance a proposed plan of activity, give increased access to artistic communities and cultural resources in the destination country, and deepen the cultural exchange experience. However, proposals in this program should be feasible with or without additional guidance from ACC.
Focus Countries
Citizens of China, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR, and Macau SAR
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit Organizations
Selection Criteria
- As ACC intends to support cultural exchange activities through the Organization and Project Grant, applicants must:
- Articulate what kind of cultural exchange the organization plans to create; why the cultural exchange project is important to the organization, the project participants, and the larger community or field; and how the organization plans to sustain the outcome or impact after the project ends.
- Be a registered nonprofit organization/NGO and provide a government-issued not-for-profit certificate .
- Request funding for specific project participants who meet the criteria described in the general eligibility guidelines on the Fellowships & Grants page.
- Describe how project participants will benefit from their involvement and the importance of their participation to the larger goals of cultural exchange.
Restrictions
- Please note the following restrictions:
- ACC funding cannot be used for artist fees or production expenses.
- Applications that do not name individual project participants and include their biographies and work samples will not be considered. The project participants cannot be changed without ACC’s approval.
For more information, visit https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/our-work/programs/fellowships-and-grants/organization-and-project-grants