Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation: Socially Engaged Art Support Grant 2021

Deadline: 4-Oct-20

The Kawamura Cultural Foundation is accepting applications for “2021 Socially Engaged Art Support Grant Program” to 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.

The program would further enhance in-depth relationships between art culture and the society and will contribute in cultivating higher cultural developments in Japan.

The foundation seeks, through cultural arts, to develop the infrastructure and create an environment that will nurture people’s creativity and expressive power, to create a spiritually rich society that can accept emotional connections, mutual understanding and respect, and diversity, with the aim of supporting the activities of the most talented young cultural artists, to pass on and develop the culture arts that have been cultivated thus far, and to promote the imagination of new and original cultural art.

Funding Information

Grant Amount: Maximum of 3 million JPY in total
Grant Period: From April 1st 2021 through March 31th 2022

Project Requirements

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: