Research Blogs & Archives

Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for Arts Platforms which could include situations like workshops, residencies, artists’ gatherings, that seek to build and stimulate networks and spaces (physical, online or a hybrid of both). These initiatives should bring together artists within or across practices on common ground, fostering exchange, nurturing collaboration, enabling creativity, and supporting the sustainability of their practices.

Duration of the project: Up to 12 months

Budget: Up to a maximum of Rs 3,00,000/-

Who can apply?

We invite proposals from practitioners working within and across disciplines. These could include:

-Performing artists working in music, sound, text, dance, movement, theatre, puppetry, storytelling, magic, circus, and other performance arts
-Visual artists working across all forms, including film (non-fiction and fiction), animation, photography, installation, new media, creative coding, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, interactive arts, gaming/ concept art, painting, sculpture, printmaking, comic books, graphic narrative, artist books, and other visual arts
-Curators, especially those working outside of the gallery context
-Poets, novelists, short fiction writers, playwrights, film script writers, comics writers, game writers, creative nonfiction writers, working with literary arts
-Practitioners engaged in interdisciplinary work

Application deadline: 31 August 2026

For details, see here: https://indiaifa.org/node/2121

Ministry of Culture – Cultural Function & Production Grant (CFPG)

Focus: Arts, Culture & Heritage
Applications are accepted throughout the year (as per scheme guidelines)

For details, see here

https://culture.gov.in/cultural-function-and-production-grant-cfpg

The Leela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant is an annual grant that seeks to support artists-educators in India who are engaged in developing and running an art education project with school-aged children (5- 18 years of age), either within or outside the classroom. The grant encourages artist-educators whose projects integrate local knowledge, lived environments, and experiences into their learning and teaching methods.

Grant amount – INR 1 lakh
Grant period – up to 12 months
Number of grants – 3

Application deadline – 30 August 2026

For details, see here

https://mrinalinimukherjeefoundation.com/exhibitions/34-leela-mukherjee-artist-educator-grant-2026-call-for-proposals/#

The Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF) and Asia Art Archive (AAA) in India are pleased to announce the SSAF–AAA Research Grant for Archiving Histories of Art, Ideas, and Visual Culture 2026.

The grant aims to:

• Encourage the use of innovative methodologies to identify, document, research, and annotate visual and cultural print materials in regional languages across India.
• Open up research avenues into wider discursive fields, specific regional milieus, and the politics of image-making and their circulation.
• Help foreground creative modes of interpreting and engaging with materials that emerge from a recognition of their contextual significance, which in turn could result in the creation of an archive that transforms our existing understanding of the field.
• Support projects that consider both the long- and short-term outcomes of making such materials publicly available, and suggest possible strategies for the same.

GRANT FOCUS FOR 2026

We invite proposals that interrogate how visual and cultural print materials of different kinds—books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, posters, pamphlets, books, ephemera, etc.—contributed to, constituted, and were embedded in the cultural politics of a historical moment. Preference will be given to proposals that focus on materials in regional languages that are not reachable or are out of circulation, and are not easily available or located in public collections, with an intent to make these materials accessible to the best extent possible, and in meaningful and productive ways.

The areas of research may include, but need not be limited to:

• Social or political movements that extended to print culture, and the visual, literary, and political histories therein.
• The intellectual contribution of artists, activists, poets, writers, editors, designers, or publishers who played an important role in the evolution of print and visual cultural materials, and the debates involved.
• The movement of ideas about art, literature, poetry, aesthetics, and cultural practices within print culture, and as they occur through translation across languages and contexts.

Deadline for Applications: 31 July 2026

Duration of Grant: 1 September 2026–31 August 2027

Grant Amount: Up to INR 3,00,000

For more information, see here: https://aaa.org.hk/en/programmes/programmes/open-call-for-ssafaaa-research-grant-for-archiving-histories-of-art-ideas-and-visual-culture-2026