Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund (New Zealand)

Deadline: 11-Oct-22

Creative New Zealand is accepting applications for Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund to support Emerging Māori artists and practitioners to undertake an arts project.

Benefit: Your project or activities must directly benefit New Zealand arts, artists or practitioners.

Types of Funding

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.
• Pacific arts funding
  • To apply for Pacific arts funding:
    • Your activities must align to their Pacific Arts Strategy 2018-2023
    • 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 be funded?

• This fund supports emerging Māori artists or arts practitioners at an early stage of their career to undertake an arts project.
  • Skills development (mentoring, internships, residencies, workshops, conferences)
  • Researching, creating or developing artwork
  • Documentation, discourse, wānanga and archiving,
  • Exhibiting, performing and presenting work
  • Publishing (catalogues, monographs, journals, books and critical writing).

 Funding Information

• Toi Tipu Toi Rea can provide grants of $5,000 – $10,000.
• Project Timing: Your project must:
  • Start after 17 November 2022
  • Finish by 31 December 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply for the Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund you must be:
  • Māori land people AND
  • A New Zealand citizen or permanent resident AND
  • An emerging artist.
  • You cannot apply if you are a previous recipient of a Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund grant.
• 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.

Ineligible

Some activities can only be supported by specific funding programmes.

• These include, but are not limited to:
  • Berlin Writer's Residency.
  • Aotearoa delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture.
  • Translation Grants.
  • International Promotional Fund for Literature.

For more information, visit Toi Tipu Toi Rea.

For more information, visit https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/Funds-and-opportunities/Find-opportunities/Toi-Tipu-Toi-Rea—Emerging-Maori-Artist-Fund