The Suleman Annual Grant for Arts has been developed for creative practitioners based in Pakistan. With the intention to express support for diverse artists who are curious and sensitive towards wider socio-political concerns that inform their research, materials and modes of communication. The initiative is to provide a unique opportunity to actualize an independent project within a period of 9 months.

The funds from this initiative are for innovative methods of practice, and to encourage artists to produce work that engages and addresses the need for critical thinking and discourse through design, art, and other modes of creative expressions. With hopes to widen spaces and opportunities for artistic representation, the grant does not have a thematic restriction or a requirement for specific mediums. Suleman believes that artists have, or ought to have, the ability and the freedom to express their emotions, about matters that may have left a mark on them and to articulate the collective conscience of a community. The premise of this annual grant, thus, lies in the need to celebrate creativity but with courage and resistance. It seeks to actively defy censorship and oppression in the hope to create and expand the atmosphere of freedom of thought, express, and act.

The SAGA 2024 annual grant is for PKR 500,000. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted via email for an interview. One creative practitioner will receive the Suleman Annual Grant for Arts, for 2024.