Goa Open Arts
Engage Grant
Deadline: 20/07/2024
The Engage Grant focuses on community-based projects in the public sphere. The intention of this grant is to highlight process based practices which involve the active engagement of a community or public.
Terms of the Grant
– The Goa Open Arts CATALYST + ENGAGE Grants offer production, mentoring and exhibition support for Goa-based artists, to realise a new or ongoing body of work.
– Each grant of INR 50,000 will be made to artists / collectives working in any eligible medium.
– The realised work must be first exhibited at the next Goa Open Arts exhibition in April – May 2025.
– The outcome of the Engage Grant may be site-specific and located anywhere in Goa. The grantee must be able to show documentation or reference to the project as part of the Goa Open Arts exhibition in April – May 2025.
– All Grantees will be expected to be in Goa for the duration of the exhibition, and oversee the installation and de-installation of their work.
– All Grantees will be invited to conduct a workshop or public program during the course of the exhibition period.
– Applicants may apply for both the CATALYST and ENGAGE Grants. They will need to upload two separate applications.
Eligibility
– Any arts practitioner based in Goa is eligible to apply.
– There are no age restrictions on application.
– Arts include drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, graphic arts, performance, video art, sound art, online art, new-media practice, interdisciplinary or research-based practice, socially-engaged or public art projects and book and publishing practices.
– Individual or artist collectives may apply, if all the members are Goa-based.
– The grantee must be able to realise their project for display at the end of the grant period.
Selection
Projects will be assessed on the basis of the artists’ demonstrable commitment to her/his practice as well as of the strength of the proposal.
For further information visit https://www.goaopenarts.com/
Applications can be submitted after filling out the Google form