India Foundation for the Arts

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India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) an independent, nationwide, not-for-profit, organisation that makes grants and implements projects across practice, research and education in the arts and culture in India. Established as a public trust in 1993, IFA is headquartered in Bangalore. Since then, IFA has supported and implemented over 850 projects across the country. Its founder-director, Anmol Vellani previously worked for the Ford Foundation.

IFA acts as a facilitator, catalyst and provocateur in the field to enrich the arts in India, by supporting and implementing critical investigations, explorations and experiments that push boundaries of knowledge and practice, and challenge dominant narratives.^[1]

The IFA Archive was launched in 2018 as a space that holds the diverse materials of the projects supported and implemented by IFA over the years, currently featuring materials from more than 500 projects online. The physical space in Bangalore holds materials of over 700 projects and is open to visitors by appointment.^[2]