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The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is an independent, non-profit organization that supports arts and cultural projects in India through funding and implementation. Established as a public trust in 1993, its headquarters is located in Bangalore and has supported over 850 projects.[1] The organization’s founding director, Anmol Vellani, previously worked with the Ford Foundation, a private American foundation.
In 2018, the IFA established the IFA Archive, a dedicated repository for preserving materials from its associated projects. The archive consists of both digital and physical collections. The digital archive holds materials from over 500 projects, while the physical archive in Bangalore contains resources from more than 700 projects and is open to viewers through appointment.
Management
The Founder Director, Anmol Vellani, is a professional in arts management and organized philanthropy. He was succeeded by Arundhati Ghosh, while Menaka Rodriguez currently serves as the Executive Director.
Constituted on a national basis, the Board of Trustees holds primary responsibility for the growth and sustenance of IFA. The Trustees help determine management policies and program goals and bring significant experience in diverse fields.
Programs
The programs at IFA respond to demand for assistance while also encouraging new perspectives and directions in the arts, particularly promoting work in Indian languages other than English.
The Arts Research program engages scholars, researchers, and practitioners to research various histories and expressions of artistic practices in India, fostering wider perspectives, understandings, interpretations, and engagements in the arts.
The Arts Practice program seeks to implement projects that enable artists to expand their present range of practices in new directions, such as questioning accepted conventions, pushing new frontiers in content, form, and medium, exploring new modes of engagement with space, audience, and communities, and foregrounding a spirit of experimentation. The program implements projects under the following categories:
Explorations
Productions
Workshops/ Residencies
Arts Platforms
The Arts Education program, one of the organization's flagship programs, began in 1998-99, based on the conviction that students and youngsters would inculcate a quest for lifelong learning through the arts. The program was reviewed in 2008-09, and the recommendations led to Kali Kalisu ('learn and teach' in Kannada). IFA maintains a continuous dialogue with the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the Directorate of Public Instruction, Karnataka, and the Department of State Education, Research and Training, Karnataka to intensify its capacity-building program.
The Archives and Museums program has a twofold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers with an opportunity to generate new, critical, and creative approaches for public engagement with archives and museum collections and to energize these spaces as platforms for dialogue and discourse.[2]
Board of Trustees
Ajai Kumar Singh, Civil Service, Bangalore, is the Chairperson
Alok Rai, Language and Literature, Allahabad
Aparna Sinha, Advertising and Market Research, Kolkata
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