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The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, students, and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel and creative work in the United States. Some grants are also awarded to Americans engaged in similar activities in Asia and to arts organizations and educational institutions for specific projects of particular significance to Asian-American cultural exchange. In addition, the Council awards a small number of grants in support of regional exchange activities within Asia. The ACC’s geographic purview covers an extensive area of Asia ranging from Afghanistan to Japan. Because the Council’s grant funds are limited, however, priority consideration is currently being given to applicants from that area of Southeast and East Asia extending eastward from Burma through Japan. Grants are made in the following fields: archaeology, architecture (design, theory, and history), art history, art and architectural conservation, crafts, dance, film, museology, music, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, theater, and video. |
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The Council also awards grants in named programs that have been established with funds restricted for specific purposes. These are described below. |
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 ACC Residency Program in Asia The Asian Cultural Council’s Residency program in Asia assists individual American artists, scholars, and professionals undertaking research, teaching, and creative residencies at cultural and educational institutions in East and Southeast Asia. Projects supported in the ACC Residency Program demonstrate close collaboration in design and execution between the visiting American specialist and the host organization and produce tangible results such as publication, course development, or the creation of new artistic work. The program helps to foster the growth of Asian cultural studies in the U.S. and of American cultural studies in Asia, as well as to stimulate long-term relationships in the arts and humanities between American individuals and institutions and their colleagues in Asia. Due to limited funding the ACC Residency Program in Asia is inactive in 2006-2007. |
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Asian Art and Religion Fellowship Program This fellowship program focusing on the relationship between the artistic and religious traditions of Asia was established with an endowment gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller. The program enables American scholars, specialists, and artists to conduct research and undertake projects in Asia involving the interdisciplinary analysis of religion and the arts. The Council awards up to five research fellowships or travel grants each year through this program. Asian Art and Religion Fellowships have supported research in India on the iconography of Hindu deities, in Indonesia on the relationship between tantric religious thought and masked performance, and in Thailand on Buddhist architecture of northern Thailand. |
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Ford Foundation Fellowship Program The Ford Foundation Fellowship Program of the ACC provides support for training, travel, and research in the United States by individuals from Asia engaged in the study, documentation, and preservation of Asian traditional arts. Funded by an endowment grant from the Ford Foundation, this program offers awards in archaeology, art history, conservation, dance ethnology, ethnomusicology, museology, and other disciplines involving traditional Asian culture. |
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Hong Kong Arts Program The Council's Hong Kong Arts Program, made possible by donations from a broad group of donors in Hong Kong, provides fellowships to especially promising artists, students, and scholars from Hong Kong and other parts of China for research, study, and creative work in the United States. Limited support is also available for projects sponsored by Hong Kong institutions that involve Hong Kong-United States or Hong Kong-Asia cultural exchange. The Lee Hysan Foundation in Hong Kong is providing annual funding for two twelve-month fellowships, and six other donors—The Sir Kenneth Fung Ping Fan Foundation Trust, AIA Foundation, Spring-Time Group Limited, the Hsin Chong-K. N. Godfrey Yeh Education Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Li, and the Sovereign Art Foundation —have made multi-year commitments to fund individual fellowships through the ACC's Hong Kong office, which coordinates the Hong Kong Arts Program. With the help of these and other Hong Kong donors, the Asian Cultural Council is able to award grant support to approximately ten individual and institutional applicants each year. Information in Chinese |
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Humanities Fellowship Program Intended primarily to support American scholars and graduate students, the Council's Humanities Fellowship Program was initiated with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and matching funds from The JDR 3rd Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program assists American scholars, doctoral students, and specialists in the humanities to undertake research, training, and study in Asia in the following fields: archaeology; conservation; museology; and the theory, history, and criticism of architecture, art, dance, film, music, photography, and theater. Fellowship grants range in duration from one to nine months. The program also supports American and Asian scholars participating in international conferences, exhibitions, visiting professorships, and similar projects. |
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Mekong Region Fellowship Program The Mekong Region Fellowship program is a six-year program (2001-2006) funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The program assists individual artists and specialists from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China’s Yunnan Province in undertaking research, study, and creative projects in the United States and Asia. The program also provides funds for special projects that encourage regional collaboration and partnership. |
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Philippines Fellowship Program The Philippines Fellowship Program of the Asian Cultural Council was formally inaugurated in 2000 in association with the ACC Philippines Foundation, a new foundation established in Manila to collaborate with the ACC in raising funds and making grants for Philippines-U.S. cultural exchange. Through the ACC Philippines Foundation a range of donors in both countries are contributing to the Philippines Fellowship Program, which emphasizes support for artists, scholars, and specialists from the Philippines undertaking research, study, and creative work in the United States. Some grants are also made to Americans pursuing similar activities in the Philippines and to institutions engaged in Philippines-U.S. or Philippines-Asia exchange projects. Additional information |
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Taiwan Fellowship Program The ACC's Taiwan Fellowship Program was created in 1995 in collaboration with the Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation, a foundation established in Taipei specifically to serve as the ACC's partner in raising funds and making grants to artists, scholars, and specialists from Taiwan for research, study, and creative work in the United States. The program also supports American and Asian arts specialists visiting Taiwan to participate in cultural exchange projects organized by local arts institutions. Fundraising, application procedures, and grantee programming are administered with the assistance of the ACC-SAACF office in Taipei. Through the Sino-American Asian Cultural Foundation, a variety of individual, corporate, and foundation donors have contributed to the program, which supports up to eight grant recipients each year. Information in Chinese |
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