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Our Mission
The Inter-American Culture and Development Foundation (ICDF) seeks to strengthen cultural development in Latin America and the Caribbean through plans, programs, and projects designed to promote socio-economic sustainable ways of reducing poverty, improving quality-of-life, and achieving greater social equity in the region.
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The projects supported by the ICDF help to preserve the cultural patrimony, increase the community participation and education, strengthen cultural industries, and improve the living conditions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean through culture.
Current Projects
Renovation Project – Museo de Arte de Lima (Mali)
The project for the renovation of 48,000 sq. ft. of galleries at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) seeks to modernize the permanent galleries, where the museum’s exceptional collections are shown to the public, restore the historic Palacio de la Exposición, and give Lima a museum that meets international standards.
The MALI is a private non-profit organization managed by a Board of Trustees. As one of the major museums in Peru, MALI's role in the preservation, study and promotion of Peruvian art is widely recognized. The collection, that includes more than 10,000 pieces, presents an integral view of artistic creation in Perú from the Pre-Columbian period to the present day. In addition, MALI has an active training program that annually benefits more than 35,000 residents in the metropolitan Lima.
For these reasons, in late 2007, the ICDF's Board of Trustees approved financial and technical assistance support for the MALI. Learn more…
Impact of the Project
The main objective of the project for the renovation of the Museo de Arte de Lima is to improve access to culture in Peru through the preservation of the building that houses the museum, and the conservation and adequate display of its collections. Among the areas of direct impact are:
- The conservation of Peru’s cultural heritage, through the restoration of the structures of the Palacio de la Exposición and the conservation and exhibition of the art works and collections.
- The promotion of education, by supporting an institution that could potentially serve the more than 14,000 schools in Lima, and that offers technical and artistic education to more than 35,000 children and adults annually.
- The dissemination of arts to the general public, by offering a recreational infrastructure to more than 7.5 million residents of the Metropolitan area and the 70,000 tourists visiting the museum annually, a number that is expected to increase to 185,000 by 2010, upon completion of the project.
- The expansion of economic activity, by further developing Lima’s tourist industry with a state-of-the-art museum that offers a wonderful overview of Peruvian art history and provides a broad-ranging appreciation of the country’s rich cultural diversity.
- The support provided to a sustainable institution, such as MALI, that for more than half a century has financed its operations through education courses, special donations and private gifts, and that has demonstrated strong institutional capacity.
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South America Arts Symposium
An intensive workshop lectured by Michael M. Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts based in Washington, D.C., responds to the growing concern about the livelihood of many art organizations as governments become less able to provide funding and infrastructure for their activities. As a result, arts leaders must learn to seek the necessary resources privately. This Symposium will touch on aspects such as: building institutional strength through marketing, strategic planning and fundraising, focusing on the development of resourceful and forward-thinking solutions to the many challenges facing arts leaders today.
In concordance with the ICDF’s mission, the South American Arts Symposium will make a significant contribution by bringing tools for change to over 200 cultural institutions and managers from the region. The event will facilitate sustainable initiatives to improve the access of the majorities to the arts.
The Symposium is organized by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the ICDF and the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and will take place in April 16 and 17, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.