India Foundation for the Arts

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is a national, non-profit, grant-making organisation that supports practice, research and education in the arts in India. Established as a public trust in 1993, IFA is headquartered in Bangalore. Its founder-director, Anmol Vellani previously worked for the Ford Foundation. IFA's mission is to enrich the arts in India, by providing support for innovative projects and capacity building across all the arts.

Management

IFA believes that philanthropy is an activity that requires expert and professional attention. Constituted on a national basis, the Board of Trustees oversees IFA's management policies and professional goals. The Founder Director, Anmol Vellani, is a professional in arts management and organized philanthropy. Executive Director, Arundhati Ghosh and Programme staff, drawn from different cultural environments and artistic disciplines, develop ideas and initiatives.

Programmes

IFA's grant programmes respond to demand for assistance, while also giving encouragement to new perspectives and directions in the arts. IFA has made over 360 grants across states.

IFA support programmes

The arts research and documentation programme supports research in the arts that receiveslimited attention from the universities and the State and to encourage archives to develop as sites actively influencing discourse and creativity in the arts.

The arts education programme enriches education through the arts by offering grants to and organizing workshops for school teachers and to strengthen advocacy for arts education by supporting research and seminars.

The arts practice supports critical practice in the arts and encourage practitioners working across artistic disciplines to question existing notions through their practice.

The archival and museum fellowships enables artists and curators to engage with public/private archives and museum collections to make new work, thereby enriching their own practice as well as activating these spaces.

IFA offers grants for initiatives that do not fit within the framework of the funding programmes. These grants are available, for example, for non-profit art organizations to work towards becoming more self-reliant; for the formation of collectives or alliances to address the interest of specific art forms or the field of the arts in general; for artists to work in difficult or unusual environments or in response to challenging new social or political developments; and for projects concerned with community art practices that address issues of livelihood, revitalization and sustenance.

IFA has established a presence not only as a funding agency but also as a resource for the arts and grant-making sector at large. Grantees are given information and advice on expertise and materials relevant to their work, and alternative avenues of support for their projects. New philanthropic initiatives have drawn on IFA experience in grant making, fundraising and institution building.

Board of Trustees

Patrons

Amitav Ghosh, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ebrahim Alkazi, Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi G Jayaraman, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Naseeruddin Shah, Shekhar Kapur, Syed Haider Raza, Raja Syed Muzaffar Ali

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