The next edition of ArtConnect is now out in print! This issue, broadly themed around the visual arts, features essays on the visual culture of early Urdu magazines, the conservation of fading 16th century murals using digital technology, the evolution of storytelling traditions in India, the rich artistic talent of children in Nagaland, among others...
After months of preparation, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) organised its Project 560 Found Spaces Festival between June 5 and June 8, 2014. The four-day event featured a series of conversations with artists from Bangalore who had received grants from IFA for their projects; film screenings; a panel discussion with experts from the field; and multi-disciplinary performances across the city. While many of the projects supported under Project 560 had begun their interventions much before, the festival became an opportunity for IFA to bring together all the work done by the grantees...
We come to you at an exciting time for the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). IFA is entering its 20th year of grant making and we kick-off this important milestone with a two-year long celebration of the arts through events, presentations, festivals and much more. Here, at IFA, it has been both, a period of looking back at the exciting journey and an occasion to imagine a re-energised future, in the arts...
We have made fifteen grants and four fellowships and that is only part of what we have been doing. IFA has entered its 20th year of grantmaking this month and we are marking this milestone with a two-year long celebration of the arts. In that spirit, we have hosted several events - one fundraiser, four Open Houses, one Film Festival and six Maathukathes. Most notable among them was our fundraiser – a concert by Indian Ocean and Shubha Mudgal in Bangalore...
