Applications Invited for Socially Engaged Art Support Grant FY2025

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About the Organization

This 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.

About the Grant

At this age of globalism, Japanese artists are actively working in broad areas both domestic and abroad, and increasing numbers of grants and awards that support such artists’ activities have developed over the recent years. In such condition within the international art field, Socially Engaged Art, which aims to realize a better society through direct artist involvements with communities and societies, are attracting increasing attention among their approaches towards various controversies such as environmental issues, economic discrepancies, immigrant issues, and more others. In Japan however, Socially Engaged Art is not yet well renowned, and no particular system could be found up until this point that support such activities. Taking into account of such condition, Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation will start a new grant system in which would be the first case to support Socially Engaged Art in Japan. We hope this grant system would contribute in attaining a broader understanding of Socially Engaged Art along with its social meanings and possibilities, and intensify the activities and practices of artists who aim to realize a further better society towards the future.

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.

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

Eligibility

(project content)

• 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

(applicant)

• All age ranges, all nationalities
• Artists and Art organizations

How to Apply

Please download the APPLICATION GUIDELINE and APPLICATION FORM, fill in necessary fields, and upload all required documents including APPENDIX DOCUMENTS through our WEB application.

Application deadline: October 6th, 2024 [Sun] *18:00 Japan Time

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