The Open Society Arts and Culture Grants Program

Projects that aim to draw on the power of culture to help build open societies in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Moldova, Mongolia, and Turkey, and that involve one of the following activities:

Cultural production
Creating or strengthening cultural platforms
Professional development and capacity-building

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/strengthening-civil-society-through-arts-and-culture


The Open Society Arts and Culture Program works at the nexus of arts, culture, human rights, and social advocacy. Through its grant program, the program strives to encourage broad-based critical reflection and catalyze social action in parts of the world where open societies are absent or weak, and where the cultural rights of minority groups are endangered.

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/

UPDATE:

Please note that the Open Society Arts and Culture Program, which worked in Central Asia and the Caucausus and support Roma artists is closing this year so the grants you reference above are no longer being offered. See: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/arts-culture-program Note, though, that many other parts of the foundation network globally continue to support the arts and the support for documentary photography continues: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/documentary-photography-project