The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' grants program, Arts Exchanges on International Issues, will issue grants of $200,000 to $600,000 to support programs that "utilize the arts to engage civil society - particularly youth and diverse and underserved populations - and that foster linkages and build partnerships between U.S. and overseas nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and local communities."

Project themes are limited to:
1) Mixed Visual Artistic Mediums: Cultural Exchange between American Indigenous and Minority Artists and Indigenous and Afro-Latino Artists from Latin and Central America;
2) Mixed Visual Artistic Mediums: Cultural Exchange between American Women Artists and Women Artists from Africa and/or the Middle East.

Applications must be made through nonprofit organizations or institutions of higher education.

Deadline: May, 22, 2008