Registered research scholar, full time employees, any fellowship holders from other sources, KCC Art Fellows of the immediate two previous sessions, current or previous employees of Kolkata Centre for Creativity or Emami Art will not be eligible to apply.

If selected, KCC Art Fellows are not eligible to take up any full time employment/ any fellowship from other sources during the period of this fellowship. In case of going against this clause, the fellowship will be cancelled immediately and the fellow will be responsible to return the already received fellowship money till that date.

One applicant is eligible to apply for any one discipline only.

Total Number of fellowships: 4

01 (One) of each from the fields of Visual art, Dance, Music and Theatre.

Grant Amount

INR 1,00,000 (Indian Rupees One Lakh Only) to each selected Fellow.

An internal committee will shortlist the applications. Shortlisted participants will face an online interview with an Independent Selection panel consisted of eminent practitioners and researchers of the respective fields.

Upon the merit of the written application and interview of the candidate, the selection panel will choose maximum 2 candidates in each discipline on the following weighted criteria, to join the orientation workshop. Theapplicants must receive a minimum score in each category to be considered for a grant:

Artistic Merit 50% (minimum score of 35 out of 50)

(a) The artistic quality of your work

(b) The artistic rationale for your project

(c) The potential artistic outcomes

Impact 30% (minimum score of 15 out of 30)

The potential of the project to:

(a) contribute to your artistic development

(b) advance artistic practice

Feasibility 20% (minimum score of 10 out of 20)

Your capacity and experience to undertake the fellowship.

A reasonable budget, including the ability to provide adequate working conditions

The shortlisted candidates from the interview round, must join the orientation workshop where they will be given inputs to improve their research proposal (if needed) and will be further evaluated on the basis of their revised proposal incorporating the learnings from the workshop. Upon their submission of the revised proposal, the above mentioned criteria will again be applicable for the final evaluation and on that basis, 4 final fellows will be chosen.

The decision of the panel will be treated as final and cannot be questioned in any court of law.

NB: No application or other attached submissions will be recognised that does not follow the mentioned format of application of KAF.

It is necessary to mention the name of KCC in the time of publication, presentation and any other work related to the topic which awardees have received the fellowship.We ask you to acknowledge that you received support from the Kolkata Centre for Creativity in any communications related to your work, your project(s), and/or your organization's activities for which you received our support.

I/We acknowledge the support of Kolkata Centre for Creativity

Fellows' written acknowledgement must use the name of Kolkata Centre for Creativity name in full (do not shorten it to KCC or Kolkata Centre).

Cancellation of Fellowship

The fellowship may be terminated at any time during the tenure and the decision of KCC will be final.

Submission of unsatisfactory interim research report.

Deception of information about eligibility.

Acceptance of full time research work/ employment/ fellowship from other sources.

Misconduct

KCC Art Fellows are not eligible to take up any full time employment/ any fellowship from other sources during the period of this fellowship. In case of going against this clause, the fellowship will be cancelled immediately and the fellow will be responsible to return the already received fellowship money till that date.

KCC reserves the right to make necessary changes in the Important Dates if unavoidable situation arises.