This three-month residency is offered by Creative New Zealand in partnership with the National University of Samoa. It is an opportunity for an established New Zealand-based Pacific artist to interact and share his/her skills with the Samoan arts community.
Previous recipients include:
- Tupe Lualua, to participate in an arts residency, and develop skills and innovative new work in contemporary Pacific dance arts (2019)
- Ioane Ioane, to develop and create an audiovisual installation accompanied by ritual performance to celebrate our Pacific maritime culture (2018)
- Opeloge Ah Sam, to develop an international dance work Siva Mai (2017)
- Evotia Tamua, to complete a photography project documenting the changing lives of people in Salelesi village (2016)
- Siliga Setoga, graphic art, performance art, installation art and sculpture (2015)
- Shigeyuki Kihara, interdisciplinary artist (2014)
- Lemi Ponifasio, choreographer/director (2013)
- VaHine Collective, multimedia, visual and installation artists (2012)
- Tiffany Singh, installation artist (2011)
- Fiona Collins, playwright (2009)
- Jim Vivieaere, curator (2008)
- Nathaniel Lees, actor/director (2006)