MISSION
Started by wildlife conservationists at Wildlife Asia, our mission with PARDICOLOR is to empower artists and communities to create art, inspiring change and raising awareness on the critical issues that threaten wildlife and habitats today.
We believe that by empowering artists and supporting creative expression, we can help ourselves and the communities where we work to imagine an Earth that is sustainable and thriving with biodiversity.
OUR ORIGINS
At Wildlife Asia, our vision is a world where wildlife and wilderness thrives in harmony with people and culture. We work to conserve endangered species and threatened habitats across Southeast Asia, including the last place on earth where orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants all co-exist, the magical Leuser Ecosystem in Aceh, Sumatra. You can learn more about our conservation programs at www.wildlifeasia.org.au
Who we are
Set up as a lockdown project in April 2020, PARDICOLOR is an art initiative from wildlife conservation organisation Wildlife Asia dedicated to the production and promotion of art on wildlife, biodiversity, environment and society.
Show your work
If you are an artist producing work on wildlife, biodiversity, environment and society, PARDICOLOR is a place where you can showcase your work. Submit your work here for an online exhibit.
Apply for funding
If you are resident in Southeast Asia, you can apply for funding from the PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund to complete your art project.
MISSION
Started by wildlife conservationists at Wildlife Asia, our mission with PARDICOLOR is to empower artists and communities to create art, inspiring change and raising awareness on the critical issues that threaten wildlife and habitats today.
We believe that by empowering artists and supporting creative expression, we can help ourselves and the communities where we work to imagine an Earth that is sustainable and thriving with biodiversity.
We support artists in Asia through our Creative Arts Fund. We started off supporting artists in Southeast Asia in April 2020 and expanded to include India in April 2021
We provide support to artists in Southeast Asia who need help creating new works on wildlife, biodiversity, environment and society through the PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund.
The platform
We provide a platform for emerging and established artists to showcase their work,
talk about their practice, and build a connected community.
THE CREATIVE ARTS FUND
If you need funding to buy paints, materials, or to conduct research to complete a project, you can apply for a small grant from the PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund.
The April 22nd - July 31st 2021 call for proposals has now closed, please check back here for information on upcoming opportunities.
General information on the Creative Arts Fund and the application form is available in nine Southeast Asian languages.
Detail of a hooded pitta from Jasvic Lye's More Than Meets the Eye project, supported by PARDICOLOR’s Creative Arts Fund.
WHERE DO WE COME FROM?
Our origins
PARDICOLOR is an initiative started by Wildlife Asia, a wildlife conservation organisation that supports conservation projects across Asia, delivering immediate and effective action in priority landscapes for conservation such as the Salween Peace Park in Karen State, Myanmar and the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia. Wildlife Asia is a registered incorporated association based in Australia, and donations made to PARDICOLOR will be managed through our parent organisation.
Why PARDICOLOR ?
Our logo depicting a spotted linsang with Southeast Asia spot pattern was designed by Eric Losh.
Prionodon pardicolor is the scientific name for the Spotted Linsang, a small mammal found in tropical forests across India, Nepal, China, Bhutan and mainland Southeast Asia. Due to its small size (weighing only up to 600 grams) and the fact that it is largely arboreal, this enigmatic carnivore is rarely recorded by conventional mammal survey methods, such as camera trap surveys. And so despite having a large geographic and altitudinal range (recorded at 3308 metres), the Spotted Linsang ‘is one of several tropical species which … remains virtually unknown and could disappear without anybody noticing’.
Thus we chose PARDICOLOR as a name to reflect our efforts to support artists to describe and celebrate these fascinating but understudied species, to creatively catalogue the wonders of biological diversity that make up life on Earth.
Quote: Schreiber, A., Wirth, R., Riffel, M. & Van Rompaey, H. 1989. Weasels, civets, mongooses, and their relatives. An action plan for the conservation of mustelids and viverrids. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.