AIT (Arts Initiative Tokyo)

AIT was begun by six art curators and organisers in 2001 in Tokyo and attained its nonprofit status in 2002. It is a contemporary spaces offering alternative art classes and three-month artist-residency projects (Yukigaya). AIT has official partnerships with IASPIS (Sweden), FRAME (Finland), Fonds BKV (Holland), The Ishibashi Foundation, The Toyouta Foundation, The Backers Foundation which enables them to invite two artists and one curator from countries not normally covered by grants structures.