Asia New Zealand Foundation Arts Practitioners Fund 2025
Asia New Zealand Foundation is calling for applications from individual New Zealand-based arts practitioners for their Arts Practitioners Fund. The Fund provides support for experiential opportunities to deepen artistic and professional connections with Asia, including residencies, work placements, research tours and exchanges.
Activities can include:
- A self-organised residency at a selected professional arts organisation aimed at growing the individual practitioner’s understanding and awareness of cultural and artistic practice in Asia.
- A structured research tour within Asia aimed at developing an individual arts practitioner’s knowledge of the Asian arts sector, including opportunities for exhibition or presentation in Asian markets, or for the identification of Asian work for presentation in New Zealand.
- Attendance at a significant arts event, such as a fair or market aimed at developing an individual arts manager’s own curatorial or presentation networks with a view to presenting Asian work in New Zealand.
Eligibility
- individual artists, including visual artists, writers, musicians, choreographers, directors and performers
- individual arts managers, including curators, producers, programmers.
Funding
Applicants may request up to 7,500 NZD from this fund for costs such as return economy class airfares, professional guides, accommodation, living costs (to be determined based on actual costs in target location), ground transport or fees for residency/conference/market registration.
Arts Practitioners Fund 2025 application guidelines
Deadline: 13 January 2025