Deadline: 18-Sep-2025
The Creative New Zealand is requesting applications for its Creative Fellowship Fund to dedicate time for developing their artistic practice and creating new work.
The fund is available for general arts, Ngā toi Māori, and Pacific arts funding pools. To be eligible, applicants must be New Zealand citizens or Permanent Residents and can apply as individuals or a group of collaborators. Arts organizations and groups are not eligible for this fund. The fund offers grants of either $25,000 for up to six months of work or $50,000 for up to 18 months of work. These funds can be used for living costs, materials, and other resources needed for the new work.
Peer assessors consider whether your proposal encourages you to take creative risks and develop new ideas, supports your creative thinking, experimentation and growth in your arts practice, supports your development by helping you achieve your artistic goals, and is timely and crucial for you to do at this stage in your career. Creative New Zealand staff consider whether your proposal allows you to grow your practice and will support dynamic, diverse, and resilient New Zealand arts, in line with their Interim Investment Intentions 2023-25. For the $50,000 grants, Creative New Zealand staff and peer assessors also look at whether your proposal allows you to share your learning, discoveries, and reflections with your community and helps you evolve your practice, artform, or community.
The application process is done through the CNZ Portal. For a $25,000 grant, applicants must answer three specific questions about their proposed work, while those applying for the $50,000 grant must answer two additional questions regarding how they will share their learnings and how the project will evolve their practice or community.
Only include information that is recent and relevant. You can add information by attaching files or including weblinks. Attached files must be under 10MB each and in the following formats: .pdf, .doc or .docx (Word), .xls or .xlsx (Excel), .png, .jpg, .jpeg (images), .txt, and .mp3 or .m4a (audio). They are unable to accept documents through Google Docs, Google Drive, Drop-box or WeTransfer. They can accept audio, video, and other file formats via a web-link. Your weblinks must be to URLs where the content can be viewed or played online without needing further navigation, logins or downloading.
For more information, visit Creative NZ.
