Arts Journalism Grant 2025
About
The SAF Arts Journalism Grant seeks to provide support worth ₹1 lakh to an early- or mid-career journalist/reporter in an effort to develop a body of reportage around creative communities/ practices in the subcontinent. Situated as we are within an ecosystem that is more saturated with initiatives for critical and curatorial writing, this Grant hopes to address a seeming lacuna in opportunities for accessible arts journalism, to drive greater interest and public stakeholdership in the arts. The awardee will be chosen from a pool of candidates nominated by the Jury. The essays will be published online, with the hope to eventually publish them as a collated printed anthology after the first few editions are complete.
DURATION
9 months
INTAKE
Jury
Shukla Sawant is a visual artist and Professor of Visual Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She works with photography, installation, and printmaking. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Art , art in colonial India and historiography. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of London and studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts Paris. She is currently part of the research and editorial team of Primary Documents South Asia, for MOMA, New York.
Sharmila Vaidyanathan is a freelance writer based in Bangalore, India. She explores food, agriculture and environmental conservation through her work, which has appeared in Nature inFocus, Mongabay India, Scroll, Goya, Whetstone South Asia and Hakai Magazine among others. She is also a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and a recipient of the Earth Journalism Network’s Biodiversity Grant and the Rukhmabai Fellowship. She presented a paper on the culinary and cultural implications of asafoetida at the 2020 Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, later published in the proceedings.
Arpita Das is Founder-Publisher of the award-winning independent publishing house, Yoda Press. She is also Associate Professor of Practice, Writing, at Ashoka University and Editor, South Asia series at Melbourne University Publishing. She writes a regular column for the New York-based periodical, Publishing Perspectives.
Snigdha Poonam is the author of Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing The World. It won 2018’s Crossword Award for nonfiction in India and was longlisted in 2019 for the PEN America Literary Awards. For fifteen years now, her stories about a rapidly modernising India have highlighted critical shifts in the country’s politics, culture, and society. She divides her time between India and the United Kingdom.
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