Program Description: The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) invites applications from artists, performers, and other creative scholars working to bring Indonesian arts and culture to American audiences. The AIFIS-Luce Small Grants Program will provide competitive grants for public-facing events designed to broaden popular understandings of Indonesia among U.S. audiences. Grants will range from $500-$2500 and be reviewed on a quarterly basis by a special committee of AIFIS Board Members. This fellowship program is made possible with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, and will support a total of $20,000 worth of small grants for public events over the course of 2023-2024.
Program Objectives: The diverse arts of Indonesia have long been what attracts people to the study of such a vast archipelagic nation. Works of visual and performing arts, language study, translation, and other content of cultural exchange are important media for broadening popular awareness of Indonesia and its global relevance. The AIFIS-Luce Small Grants Program is designed to build capacity at minor sites of Indonesian studies and among communities of the Indonesian diaspora in the U.S. Funding a variety of small-scale initiatives in a competitive quarterly grant, AIFIS works to decentralize and widen public knowledge on Indonesia in the U.S. in order to advance both scholarly and popular understanding of Indonesia for American audiences. Impact from these grants should serve to advance knowledge on Indonesia for K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and general populations, as well as provide outreach and collaboration with members of the Indonesian diaspora in the U.S. who are not otherwise connected to institutions of higher learning or the academic field of Indonesian Studies. Small grants are not designed for individuals to travel to present papers at conferences, unless it is a performance or other such event at a conference. Preference will be given to projects that foreground collaboration between U.S. and Indonesian participants as well as that produce open-source content for public dissemination and/or curriculum development beyond the event.
AIFIS-Luce Small Grants Q3
Program Description: The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) invites applications from artists, performers, and other creative scholars working to bring Indonesian arts and culture to American audiences. The AIFIS-Luce Small Grants Program will provide competitive grants for public-facing events designed to broaden popular understandings of Indonesia among U.S. audiences. Grants will range from $500-$2500 and be reviewed on a quarterly basis by a special committee of AIFIS Board Members. This fellowship program is made possible with the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, and will support a total of $20,000 worth of small grants for public events over the course of 2023-2024.
Program Objectives: The diverse arts of Indonesia have long been what attracts people to the study of such a vast archipelagic nation. Works of visual and performing arts, language study, translation, and other content of cultural exchange are important media for broadening popular awareness of Indonesia and its global relevance. The AIFIS-Luce Small Grants Program is designed to build capacity at minor sites of Indonesian studies and among communities of the Indonesian diaspora in the U.S. Funding a variety of small-scale initiatives in a competitive quarterly grant, AIFIS works to decentralize and widen public knowledge on Indonesia in the U.S. in order to advance both scholarly and popular understanding of Indonesia for American audiences. Impact from these grants should serve to advance knowledge on Indonesia for K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and general populations, as well as provide outreach and collaboration with members of the Indonesian diaspora in the U.S. who are not otherwise connected to institutions of higher learning or the academic field of Indonesian Studies. Small grants are not designed for individuals to travel to present papers at conferences, unless it is a performance or other such event at a conference. Preference will be given to projects that foreground collaboration between U.S. and Indonesian participants as well as that produce open-source content for public dissemination and/or curriculum development beyond the event.