NOTICE FOR APPLICANTS:

THE FUND IS NOW CLOSED, APPLICATIONS WILL REOPEN IN MID 2024.

PLEASE CHECK OUR INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK PAGES FOR UPDATES.

THE CREATIVE ARTS FUND

The PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund was founded in 2020 to provide small grants to artists making work on wildlife and the environment. Our mission is to support artists and save Earth’s biodiversity, through empowering artists and communities to create art, inspiring change and raising awareness on the critical issues that threaten wildlife and habitats today.

Three Guiding Principles inform our approach and include the Right to Thrive (for species), the Right to Make Art (for artists), and the Right to Know (for people). Read more here.

2022 Pardicolorist Leong Yoke Mee in Malaysia’s tropical rainforests.

2022 Pardicolorist Anna Luy Tan making her documentary film on coral reefs in Taiwan.

A sacred grove in West Bengal, photograph taken by Dr Arijit Chatterjee, our Kolkata based Pardicolorist.

WHO CAN APPLY

We’re interested in supporting artists who want to make art for art’s sake (for example, a new rendering of an understudied species), and also those artists whose work falls into Artistic Activism, or ‘Artivism’. We support artists from across the globe, with a particular focus on artists from underrepresented communities and regions, as well as applicants from places or countries where there is a lack of funding available to artists. Artists of all levels may apply.

THEMES

The themes and topics that we want to support and encourage artists to apply under include; 

  • individual species lives’,

  • climate change storytelling (environmental destruction, biodiversity loss and the climate emergency),

  • unique landscapes, habitats and environments  (forests, oceans, deserts, urban etc.),

  • responses to socio-environmental changes,

  • & Indigenous responses to environmental change and conservation.

We are particularly interested in works that expand awareness of broader environmental and social issues, works that bridge between the educational and the aesthetic, and works that meaningfully engage the public. If you have another topic or issue you think is relevant but not captured here, get in touch.

HOW TO APPLY

  • You can apply for up to $500 USD in one calendar year.

  • Please contact info@pardicolor.org if you are interested in applying for a grant.

  • You can apply to produce work in pretty much any format, including; digital art, painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, documentary film, audioscapes, performance art, multidisciplinary works, animation & 3D printing. If your medium isn’t listed here and you want to apply, get in touch with us and let us know what it is. 

  • We have information on the Fund listed in 8 Southeast Asian languages, find here.