Sharjah Art Foundation is inviting applications for production grants from artists working in a range of media including sculpture, installation, time-based media, artists’ books and performance.
In this 2012 application cycle, up to a total of $200,000 is available.
The aim of this programme is to encourage innovative and ambitious projects and to provide artists with a platform for experimentation.
The deadline for submission of applications is 24 February 2012 and selections will be announced the following month in March. The selected projects will be developed and produced by the artists alongside the Sharjah Art Foundation.
Sharjah Art Foundation launched the Production Programme as one of its core initiatives in 2008. Recipients of funding in 2010 were Bani Abidi and CAMP, whose SAF commissioned projects will be first premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany from June 2012.
The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme broadens the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region through a commitment to support innovation and excellence in artistic practice by encouraging risk and experimentation. This commitment places artists at the core of the Foundationʼs mission by offering grants and professional support for the realisation of projects selected from an open call for proposals.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary rise in artistic activity throughout the Middle East, resulting in an increased visibility for artists both regionally and internationally. Within this context, the Foundation hopes to promote and encourage an environment of public and private patronage for the highest level of artistic endeavour.
Art practitioners are invited to propose imaginative, ambitious and inspirational projects that will transform our understanding of what art is and how it can be experienced. With this initiative, Sharjah Art Foundation hopes to engage and challenge the artists and audiences aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally, socially, politically or in ways new and unexpected.
For further information and applications please visit the www.sharjahart.org
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