Fertile Ground
While one-off financial support can provide artists with a chance to develop their independent practice, we recognise that emerging talents need links to a wider cultural ecosystem for their sustainable career growth. In this spirit, we have partnered up with key organisations from our global network to provide our Seed Awardees with further opportunities and connections within a global cultural landscape.
Fertile Ground connects Seed Awardees with organisations that offer the artists a platform to showcase their work, participate in residencies or workshops, while providing time and space to reflect with peers, form new connections, and meet with mentors who guide them in catalysing their professional development.
Our programme partner organisations receive support to contribute to their sustainable development and enable continuity of their vital regional functions. All organisations are brought together to exchange and build the community and solidarity of global changemakers.
The programme has been established driven by the Prince Claus Fund's vision of decentralising our work and nurturing a South-to-South cultural ecosystem through direct investment in the local infrastructures that our Seed Awardees engage with and depend on.
Fertile Ground is partially made possible by Hawthornden Foundation.
