ACC Travel and Research Funding

The majority of ACC’s funding is awarded directly to individuals, but organizations that are facilitating a cultural exchange opportunity for individual project participants may apply on their behalf. Artist-led projects involving collaboration between three or more individuals are also considered in this category. All applicants in this category must have either official non-profit status or a fiscal sponsor. The duration and scope of projects may range, but requests to ACC should not exceed $10,000.

Organizations
ACC funding may only be used for the participation of specific individuals in a given project, and awards are made on the assessment of their work; the benefit they will gain from participating in the project; and the importance of their participation to larger goals of cultural exchange.

Projects
For project grants, any application seeking funding for three or more individuals will be reviewed as an organization grant, and must be submitted using the organization application form. Only requests from registered non-profits or from individuals with fiscal sponsorship will be considered. As with organization grants, the proposal should make a case for the participation of each individual for whom funding is sought, and the application will be reviewed on the merits of each individual project participant.

Where
Individual applicants must be either residents or citizens of one of the following countries, and their proposed program must involve travel between one or more countries on the list. Organization and project applicants may apply for activities involving travel between one or more countries on the list.

• Afghanistan
• Indonesia
• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
• Japan
• Philippines
• Bhutan
• Korea
• Singapore
• Brunei
• Laos
• Sri Lanka
• Cambodia
• Macau SAR
• Taiwan
• China
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• East Timor
• Mongolia
• Vietnam
• Hong Kong SAR
• Myanmar
• United States
• India
• Nepal
   

Who
Professional artists, arts administrators, scholars, graduate/post-graduate students, and organizations working in the following fields:

• Archaeology
• Crafts
• Literature (for travel to and from Japan only)
• Architecture
• Curation
• Art History
• Dance
• Museum Studies
• Arts Administration
• Ethnomusicology
• Music
• Arts Criticism
• Film/Video/Photography
• Theater
• Conservation
• Visual Art