Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners 2025

Overview

Eligibility

• To be eligible, an applicant must:-
• be a creative practitioner working across mediums such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, architecture, sound and music, design, crafts, installations, performance, literature and oral history
• be a domicile of one of the following Indian Himalayan Region, spread across 13 Indian States/Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir
• Ladakh
• Uttarakhand
• Himachal Pradesh
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Manipur
• Meghalaya
• Mizoram
• Nagaland
• Sikkim
• Tripura
• Assam
• West Bengal

Benefits

Selected candidates will receive a one-time grant of up to ₹3,00,000.

How to Apply

Selection Process

• Preference will be given to projects whose creative outcomes take various forms, from video works and photobooks to experimental online archives, from public art installations, site-specific and travelling exhibitions to performative interventions, and from forays into alternative pedagogies and interactive design projects, etc.
• The fellowship will entail hybrid forms of engagement through workshops and site visits. Selected applicants will be expected to be present for the same, and good internet access will be a requirement.

Documents Required

• An updated portfolio of individual or collective practice with not more than 20 ongoing and older projects. ( Note:- Please include images and links to video files or other supporting material within this PDF itself)
• A detailed project proposal with the following - Outline of the proposed area of work/research and how it relates to the aegis of the grant.
• Details on community involvement, stakeholders and collaborators (if any)
• Images and videos wherever applicable ( Note: - Videos to be included within the PDF as links)
• Updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) and bio. ( Note: - If applying as a collective, send CVs and bios for all members of the collective)