CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art – offers 25 grants to support the attendance of contemporary visual art professionals from developing countries at its annual 2012 conference.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: TRAVEL GRANTS TO ATTEND CIMAM´S 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art – is pleased to offer twenty-five grants to support the attendance of contemporary visual art professionals from developing countries to CIMAM´s 2012 Annual Conference ´Museums Beyond the Crises´ that will be held in Istanbul November 12 to 14, 2012. An audience of around 180 museum directors and curators from more than 40 countries is expected for the event.

Funding for the CIMAM Travel Grants has been generously provided by The Getty Foundation and the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

For further information on eligibility criteria, requirements and to apply please refer to the document ´Travel Grants Form 2012' on the website.

Application deadline is July 1, 2012

Eligible ASEM countries (see guidelines for full list): Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Malysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Poland, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam.