Artist Archive

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Folkartopedia Media Archive is the first project in Bihar to combine the media collection of art contents; audio-visual interviews, dance, music and theatrical practices, oral histories, and cultural expressions. If you would like to send over original media content, please get in touch. That could include original audio-video recordings. 

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If you would like to send over art books, monographs, art journals, art research papers, published articles and original manuscripts on art, please get in touch with us. 

If you would like to send over equipment (new or used) that our  contributors could use, please get in touch. That could include still and video cameras, audio digital recorders, laptops, hard disks and other equipment.

If you wish to support us more, plan a giving, contribution, extension to support a project or a section of the Archive, please reach us at director-fpedia@outlook.com.
Please mention Planned Giving in the subject line.   

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Join Folkartopedia Friend’s circle with an annual donation and become an integral support of the Archive.

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Join the Artist Archive

The Artist Archive is an upcoming searchable database of artists, art communities, and art organizations in India. The Archive makes their art practices more accessible to the art-loving communities and common mass, displaying their portfolios, art-making processes, their statements, profiles, and media publications as well as biographical information, including audio-visual content, if available. Become a member of the Artist Archive and get your collection on the map today!

Membership charges: INR 10,000*

Become a member and we will create your custom profile page on Folkartopedia Archive formatted by SEO experts to achieve higher visibility in search results. The design of the page includes artist’s brief profile, artist’s statement, two articles written by experienced art writers/critics, show-off artist’s media publications, portfolio, social media connect, audio-visual promotion on social media platforms, back-links to your site (if available) and four edits per year.

Benefits

Bi-annual Folkartopedia artists’ forum 
Exhibit your artworks on website annually
AV promotions on social media networks*
10% discount on Folkartopedia Collect store
Folkartopedia AA Circle Membership card
And, other activities that are being developed

Artists should send the following documents as a PDF document only. File size: 20 MB, maximum.

Curriculum vitae
Brief introduction: 200 words, maximum
Artist’s statement: 1200 words, maximum

Any language version

Critic’s endorsement: 2 maximum

Media contents

Profile image: Minimum 3, landscape mode. One will be published.
Portfolio: 8 Artworks images
Media publications, news coverage: 8 images
Video profile or interview

Suggestions: Media

Image Resolution:  5616 X 3744 / 4416 X 3312 / 4000 X 3000 / 3648 X 2736
For videos: UHD, HD, 16:9. Please add the links and passwords, if needed.

Terms and conditions

*Membership is non-exclusive and valid for one year
First year open call for listing ending on October 15, 2024
One year free extension for the members of the first list
AA membership is neither refundable nor transferable
Membership charge is non-refundable
Please fill submission mapping form (mandatory)  
To know more about sales commission on the Collect, email now

Important note:

Artists interested in participating in Artist Archive will submit all the above mentioned contents at their own cost. Artists can avail services of the Folkartopedia empaneled content creators; writers, photographers or videographers to create brief introduction, and statements, art documentation, creators for video profiling, documentary film making etc. More details on services and charges. 

Make a Donation

Your generosity make everything at the Archive possible, like documentation of an artist, digitization of artworks or preservation of the collections and other initiatives. We invite you to support the Folk Art Fund, Folkartopedia corpus and help us maintaining the archive.

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You can send a donation only from an Indian bank account, in Indian rupees. We are currently not registered with FCRA for accepting foreign funds.

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Payable to: Folkartopedia Foundation
Bank Name: Bank of Baroda 
Branch: Kaushambi, Ghaziabad 
Account No.: 26680200001758
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