Research Blogs & Archives

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation, invites applications for the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+), a collective forum that will support 10 art practitioners through a financial grant of Rs 100,000 each, a mentorship programme, and an exhibition component.

Submission deadline: 28 February 2026

See here for more details: https://ficart.org/eaa-2026-open-call

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), in collaboration with the Women of Vaastukala Archive, India, invites applications for IFA-Women of Vaastukala Creative and Scholarly projects, under our Archives and Museums programme.

The programme has a twofold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers with an opportunity to generate new, critical and creative approaches for public engagement with archives and museum collections; and to energise these spaces as platforms for dialogue and discourse.

Call for proposal deadline: 12 February 2026

For details, please see here: https://indiaifa.org/whats-new/amp-rfp-ifa-wov-january2026.html

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Royal Enfield, is pleased to announce the third edition of The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners (2025–26). The Fellowship invites applications from creative practitioners working across mediums at the intersection of ecology and cultural knowledge, based in the Western and Eastern Himalayan regions, including the eight Northeastern states.

The year-long Fellowship will support selected projects with an amount of up to 3 Lakh each.

Submission deadline: 15 December 2025

For more details, see here: https://ficart.org/thf-opencall-3