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Here is some good news: Art can change things! Art can change how you see your world, change how you see others, change how you see yourself. Art brings people together, and shows us who we are and who we are meant to be. Art changes us. And art changes society!

Art for Change Foundation is a New Delhi-based arts organization founded with the conviction that art plays a profound role in exploring questions of human dignity and the common good. For the last 14 years Art for Change has pursued a vision to see art shape society with beauty and truth—and to see artists find their place in society and flourish.  We do this through creating spaces for art to be created, for artists to grow professionally and in social responsibility, for the public to meaningfully engage with the art created, and for the people whose issues we make art about--and whose lives we get inspired by--to benefit. Our international residencies further create collaborative cross-cultural interactions that result in new learning and long-term friendships.  

Art for Change has its genesis in four artist-friends meeting in a New Delhi apartment in 2004 to spend a week together painting about religious violence. The combination of intense reflection, creativity, and community was so stimulating we just kept on going, meeting each subsequent year to tackle a different theme, and eventually birthing an arts organization in 2008. Now in our 15th year of official existence we have run 34 artist residencies (8 of which have been the annual International Artist Residency), held 66 exhibitions for audiences ranging from people on the streets of New Delhi to Members of Parliament, and run art workshops on a regular basis for some of our city's most vulnerable citizens.  We have launched the monthly Delhi Artist Studio Tour to promote emerging yet struggling young artists, run Art Melas to "make beauty affordable" for the middle classes while supporting artists in the process, and hold Art Classes and Workshops among other activities that result in art playing its positive, life-giving role in society.