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The Asian Cultural Council's application form for individuals will be available from September 1 to November 2, 2015.
To apply, you must be an artist, an arts or humanities professional, a scholar, or a graduate/post-graduate student in a related field. Your country of permanent residence must be within Asia or the United States, and your proposed project must take place outside of your home country, also in either the United States or Asia.
Please note that our fellowship grants are process-oriented, not product-oriented. They are intended for exploration, not exhibition.
The majority of ACC's grants are awarded after our May board meeting. Since we are unable to provide support retroactively, the project for which you are seeking funding should begin no earlier than June 1st of the year after you apply.
Disciplines Funded
ACC supports individuals working in the following disciplines:
Archaeology Film/Video
Architecture Literature (for projects to
Art History and from Japan only)
Arts Administration Museum Studies
Arts Criticism Music
Conservation Photography
Crafts Theater
Curation Visual Art
Dance
Eligible Countries
Applicants must originate from, and be travelling to, the following countries:
Afghanistan Indonesia Pakistan
Bangladesh Japan Philippines
Bhutan Korea Singapore
Brunei Laos Sri Lanka
Cambodia Macau Taiwan
China Malaysia Thailand
East Timor Mongolia Vietnam
Hong Kong Myanmar United States
India Nepal
Projects NOT Funded by the Asian Cultural Council
activities conducted by individuals in their home countries
commercial and industrial design
film and video production costs
individual artist exhibitions and performance tours
publications
undergraduate and secondary school study
full tuition costs -- ACC can help cover living and travel expenses for graduate/post-graduate students only
projects retroactively
Complete Application Materials
The deadline for all application materials is 5:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 2, 2015. We will not process or follow up on late or incomplete applications.
Reference Letters You will be requested to find two references to write letters of recommendation on your behalf. Their letters should address the following questions (as well as any other relevant information): (1) How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant? and (2) Assess the candidate's qualification's and previous achievements, and evaluate the potential impact/contribution of his or her project. Recommenders must email their letters to the ACC office to which you are applying, with your name in the subject line, no later than November 1st.
Work Samples Additional samples of work may be submitted to ACC, and should consist of no more than 25 images, 15 minutes of sound/video, and/or 15 pages of text. Work samples should be saved to ONE CD or DVD, labeled with your name, and sent to the same ACC office to which you are applying (see below.) Please note that it is not necessary to send your work samples by express mail. As long as they are postmarked by November 2, we will receive them whenever they arrive at our offices.
All US applicants should apply through the ACC office in New York. For questions, email application@accny.org.
