Development Fund for Artists and Practitioners 2025 - September

125 grants totalling $597,205 have been offered to support creative and professional development projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round across three funding pools (Ngā toi Māori, Pacific arts and General arts). We received 233 eligible applications, with a total of $1,112,156 requested.

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This was broken down as follows:

• Ngā toi Māori: 31 projects totalling $149,127 were supported. $206,127 was requested by 43 applicants.
• Pacific Arts: 7 projects totalling $35,000 were supported. $70,000 was requested by 14 applicants. 
• General Arts: 87 projects totalling $413,078 were supported. $836,029 was requested by 176 applicants.

Artforms were supported as follows:

• 14 - Craft and Object art
• 13 - Customary Māori arts
• 12 - Dance
• 7 - Literature
• 24 - Multidisciplinary arts
• 17 - Music
• 1 - Pacific Heritage arts
• 20 - Theatre
• 17 - Visual arts

Funded activity will take place in the following locations:

• 28 - Auckland
• 10 - Bay of Plenty
• 5 – Canterbury
• 3 – Manawatu-Whanganui
• 2 - Nelson-Marlborough
• 6 - Northland
• 10 – Online
• 3 - Otago
• 39 – Overseas
• 1 – Taranaki
• 3 - Waikato
• 11 – Wellington
• 4 – Not specified

The list of funded artists and practitioners will be published on Monday, 15 December.