Constituted on a national basis, the Board of Trustees holds primary responsibility for the growth and sustenance of IFA.
The Trustees help determine management policies and program goals, and bring significant experience in diverse fields.
The programs at IFA respond to demand for assistance, while also encouraging new perspectives and directions in the arts, particularly promoting work in Indian languages other than English.
The Arts Practice program seeks to implement projects that enable artists to expand their present range of practices in new directions, such as questioning accepted conventions, pushing new frontiers in content, form and medium, exploring new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, and foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.
IFA maintains a continuous dialogue with the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the Directorate of Public Instruction, Karnataka, and the Department of State Education, Research and Training, Karnataka to intensify its capacity building program.