Deadline: 3-Dec-23
The Hyundai Motor India Foundation (HMIF) has launched the Art for Hope Grant Program with an aim to revive traditional art and create awareness amongst youth.
The program endeavours to showcase India’s rich art, craft and culture while helping elevate the lives of artisans and craftspersons.
Purpose of Grant
- The Grant is to support artists towards procuring material for the project or livelihood in case materials are already available.
- Artist will use the Grant to complete the projects as proposed in his/her/ their proposals.
- The Grant will be distributed in two phases – 50% upon selecting artist for the project and 50% post submission of complete report and display of works in public exhibition.
Funding Information
- Individual Grant – 25 artists to be selected and will be given Rs.1,00,000 each.
- Collective / Foundation Grant – 5 foundations to be selected and will be given Rs.2,00,000 each.
- Specially Abled Artist – 10 artists to be selected and will be given Rs.50,000 each.
Deliverables
- The Grant shall be used to execute an art project for public viewing on a socially relevant awareness theme.
- Projects can be located anywhere in India and completed within 6-8 weeks of Grant announcement. Project in whole or part will be displayed in public exhibition in Delhi/NCR or Mumbai.
- After 30 days of receiving the full Grant, the artists must submit a 1000-word report on the utilization of the funds inclusive of process images, text and description of work done using the Grant.
- HMIF’s advisory committee will mentor, advise and guide on the project execution. Advisor may direct artists to work in collaboration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposals are invited from individual artists or collective/institutions/ foundations at any stage, in their practice across domains viz., visual art, performance art, digital art, folk & traditional arts, crafts and community arts (hereinafter called as the “Art”) in the following categories:
- Institutional Grant – Registered NGO/Trust/Museum/Association/Collective or Social Enterprise
- Individual Grant
- Practicing artist under the age of 40, no age limit in traditional art category
- Having formally trained in arts for a minimum period of 3-4 years, unless a traditional and folk artist
- Must have artisan card in case of traditional artist
- Primary occupation of the participant should be Art
- Project proposals must be for community relevant social & environmental causes unless in support of recognized traditional arts & crafts. Theme: Saath-Saath/Hand in Hand.
- Grant is open only to Indians citizens residing in India
- Program is intended to support artists who do not have a platform to showcase their art and promote Indian art and culture. Therefore, preference would be given to youth, women and artist from non-metro cities.
- Specially abled artist may apply in the category.
Conditions
- Selected grantees/artists shall sign a letter of undertaking with HMIF.
- Art by artist will be original, innovative and not copied or translated from any source and if art contains content that depicts racial abuse, violence, immoral, unethical, illegal, anti-social, obscene, anti-religious, inflammatory or defamatory, pornographic, vulgar, nudity or promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, or otherwise objectionable of any kind, will be rejected by HMIF.
- Artist will permit HMIF to use the Art, photography/image, video, etc. including making/printing of Catalogue of Arts or documentation of Arts and other personal information without any restrictions for advertisements, marketing & promotion and/or other purposes and also shall participate in the joint press conference.
- Artist/Grantee shall keep confidentiality and shall not disclose to any third party confidential information, which shall without limitation include proprietary, technological, economic, legal, administrative business, etc, without the prior written consent of HMIF.
- Intellectual property rights on the art developed by artist shall be with the Artist and HMIF is free to use the art without any fee, on non-exclusive and non-transferable basis. All intellectual property rights on reports, document or materials prepared or inventions or information produced as a result of the performance by the Artist/Grantee, shall be and remain the property of HMIF.
For more information, visit Hyundai Motor India Foundation.