Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Creative New Zealand is accepting applications for Arts Grants to emerging and established artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations for a range of activity.
This funding enables more sustainable careers, encourages innovation and the development of arts practice, and provides opportunities for diverse communities to access the arts.
Purposes
Your project or programme of activities must achieve one, or more, of the programme’s purposes, which are:
- Development of arts practice
- For instance, projects which encourage the development of:
- individual artists and arts practitioners through improving their artistic quality, their ability to be innovative and/or share best practice with international peers, so that they can reach their potential and achieve their goals
- arts organisations through improving their artistic quality, organisational effectiveness, and financial health
- New Zealand’s arts infrastructure, arts communities and audiences.
- For instance, projects which encourage the development of:
- Innovation in New Zealand arts
- For instance, projects that allow artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to actively investigate new ways of working and take artistic risks. Innovation may exist in the:
- form of the work
- process of creating the work
- way the work is presented
- ways the work engages with its audience
- way in which skills and techniques are passed on.
- For instance, projects that allow artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to actively investigate new ways of working and take artistic risks. Innovation may exist in the:
- More sustainable careers for artists, arts practitioners, arts organisations, groups and collectives
- For instance, capability building projects that allow artists, arts practitioners, arts organisations, groups and collectives to:
- develop professional skills that support their careers and their organisation
- grow national and international audiences for their work
- develop diverse sources of support
- develop skills and knowledge to ensure their artwork and practice is relevant to New Zealanders and international audiences.
- For instance, capability building projects that allow artists, arts practitioners, arts organisations, groups and collectives to:
- Opportunities for diverse communities to access and participate in high-quality arts experiences
- For instance, projects that:
- remove barriers to access for audiences across New Zealand
- celebrate the arts of diverse cultures within New Zealand.
- For instance, projects that:
Funding Information
- Arts Grants offer short-term project funding between $5,000 to $75,000.
Funding Types
- There are three types of funding: Ngā toi Māori, Pacific arts and General arts. There are additional eligibility requirements for Ngā toi Māori and Pacific arts funding types. You may be eligible for more than one type of funding, but you can only choose one for your application.
- Ngā toi Māori funding
- To apply for Ngā toi Māori funding:
- you must be Māori, or your project must be managed or directed by Māori
- organisations, groups or collectives must be Māori-led. If an organisation is applying for funding on behalf of an individual, that person must also be Māori.
- Applications are assessed by Māori artists or practitioners with experience in Ngā toi Māori.
- To apply for Ngā toi Māori funding:
- Pacific arts funding
- To apply for Pacific arts funding:
- Kaupapa Pasifika will be evident in the practice of your activities
- the activities will deliver outcomes to Pacific arts and artists
- Applications are assessed by Pasifika artists or practitioners with experience in the Pacific arts.
- To apply for Pacific arts funding:
- General arts funding
- The general eligibility criteria apply. Applications are assessed by artists and practitioners with experience in the relevant artform.
- Ngā toi Māori funding
Outcomes
To receive funding from Creative New Zealand, your project must achieve the outcomes they’re looking for:
- Strategic outcomes
- Your project or programme of activities must achieve at least one of their Strategic outcomes, which are:
- High-quality New Zealand art is developed
- They support projects where high-quality New Zealand arts are developed by enabling artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to:
- develop their artforms, the quality of their work, and their artistic skills and capabilities
- be innovative in their arts practice
- create work that excites, challenges, inspires and resonates with audiences.
- They support projects where high-quality New Zealand arts are developed by enabling artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to:
- New Zealand arts gain international success
- They support projects where New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations can:
- develop their practice in relation to the international arts environment, including through cultural and artistic exchange
- develop international markets and audiences to expand their reach onto the world stage, and improve their financial sustainability
- promote New Zealand and its arts to international audiences
- They support projects where New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations can:
- New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
- They support projects that broaden the opportunities for all New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts, including by:
- ensuring access to a diverse range of arts experiences
- investing to engage under-served communities.
- They support projects that broaden the opportunities for all New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts, including by:
- New Zealanders participate in the arts
- They support projects that allow New Zealanders to have as many opportunities as possible to participate in the arts, including to:
- express themselves artistically
- celebrate, practise, transmit and develop their diverse artistic traditions and cultural heritage
- develop links between communities.
- They support projects that allow New Zealanders to have as many opportunities as possible to participate in the arts, including to:
- New Zealand’s arts sector is resilient
- They support projects that build the resilience of the arts sector so it can adapt to challenges and embrace opportunities, while recognising the ways in which their country and the needs of its people are changing.
- High-quality New Zealand art is developed
- Your project or programme of activities must achieve at least one of their Strategic outcomes, which are:
Eligibility Criteria
- They accept applications from:
- Individuals who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents
- New Zealand-based organisations
- International arts organisations. But the application must show benefits to New Zealand arts.
- Your project or activities must directly benefit New Zealand arts, artists or practitioners.
- You must have a track record of experience and success — this means you must have:
- recognition from peers or experts
- achieved a degree of critical or sales success
- specialised training or practical experience
Note: Arts Grants round will close once 250 applications have been submitted.
For more information, visit Creative New Zealand.