Deadline: 31-Oct-23
Creative New Zealand is seeking applications to provide short-term funding for artists, arts practitioners, and arts organisations to complete a project within a 12-month period.
Purpose of Arts Grants
- 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:
Long-term Goals (Strategic Outcomes)
- High-quality New Zealand art is developed:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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
- Support projects where New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations can:
- New Zealanders experience high-quality arts:
- 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.
- Support projects that broaden the opportunities for all New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts, including by:
- New Zealanders participate in the arts:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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 the country and the needs of its people are changing.
Funding Types
- Ngā toi Māori Funding
- Pacific arts Funding
- General arts Funding
Funding Information
- Grant Amount: $5,000 to $75,000
- Timeframe: Complete project within a 12-month period (fall between 14 October 2023 and 31 March 2025).
Eligibility Criteria
- General Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- 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.
- Pacific arts Funding
- Kaupapa Pasifika will be evident in the practice of your activities
- The activities will deliver outcomes to Pacific arts and artists
- General arts Funding
- The general eligibility criteria apply. Applications are assessed by artists and practitioners with experience in the relevant artform.
What can’t be Funded
- Activities already funded by another Creative New Zealand funding programme or initiative. For instance, the Creative Communities Scheme.
- Activities another Creative New Zealand funding programme or initiative is designed to support.
- Retrospective or ongoing costs.
- Purchase of capital items, renovating or buying buildings, or restoring marae.
- Duplication of funding from other government agencies.
- Projects, project phases or programmes of activity that have received support from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage via the Arts and Culture COVID Recovery Programme (excluding Cultural Sector Emergency Relief Fund, the Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme and the Grant for Self-Employed Individuals).
- Core education resources and activities that are part of the curriculum or a course of study in New Zealand, including early learning, school, or further education.
- Game design, fashion design and commercial design.
- Some film and screen activity.
- Activities that are part of the core business of a Tertiary Education Organisation (TEO), Territorial Local Authority (TLA) or Council Controlled Organisation (CCO).
For more information, visit Creative New Zealand.