Deadline: August 31, 2026
Applications are open for the Impart & Nalli Fellowships 2027-2028. The Impart & Nalli Fellowships supports South Asia-based projects that generate new interest in the region’s textile practices among diverse audiences. The Fellowships combine Nalli Silks’ focus area of textile production and design with the Impart’s vision of fostering incisive research in the study of art histories from South Asia.
This Fellowship supports research into underexplored textile-related histories, practices, and traditions across South Asia. Applicants may propose projects on any textile-centric subject. The following areas of research are encouraged:
- Textiles in religious, literary, liturgical, and mythological contexts
- Environmental impact of textile production and consumption
- Endangered or disappearing textile traditions
- Critical perspectives on textile revivalism, digitisation, archives, and material afterlives
- Labour in textile production, with particular attention to caste, class, and gender
- Relationships between textiles and other cultural forms, including storytelling, poetry, music, architecture, and material culture
- Techniques, technologies, and tools associated with specific textile traditions
- South Asian textiles within the contemporary global design economy
- Intellectual property, ownership, and cultural rights in textile production
- Socio-cultural perspectives on the relationship between handmade and industrial textiles
Benefits
- Two Research Fellowships will be awarded, each carrying a grant of INR 5.5 lakhs to support one year of independent research and project development.
Eligibility
- Open to applicants aged 18 years or older, residing anywhere in the world, whose proposed projects engage with textile practices across the wider South Asia region.
- They welcome applications from early- and mid-career researchers, designers, archivists, journalists, writers, educators, practitioners, collectives, and small organisations.
Supported Project Formats
The Fellowship supports a range of outcome formats, including but not limited to:
- Journalistic inquiry
- Documentary film
- Archive activation
- Practice-based research
- Archive generation
- Digitisation and documentation initiatives
- Exhibition or book projects
Application
For more information, visit Impart & Nalli Fellowships.
