Results posted: 28 October 2026
123
Grants awarded
$598,728
Total funding awarded
315
Eligible applications received
$1,519,413
Total funding requested
12 grants totalling $598,728 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 315 eligible applications, with a total of $1,519,413 requested.
This was broken down as follows:
- Ngā toi Māori: 29 projects totalling $143,800 were supported.
$273,745 was requested by 55 applicants. - Pacific Arts: 9 projects totalling $45,000 were supported.
$98,900 was requested by 20 applicants. - General Arts: 85 projects totalling $409,928 were supported.
$1,146,768 was requested by 240 applicants.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 8 - Craft and Object art
- 10 - Customary Māori arts
- 13 - Dance
- 6 - Literature
- 36 - Multidisciplinary arts
- 11 - Music
- 2 - Pacific Heritage arts
- 18 - Theatre
- 19 - Visual arts
Funded activity will take place in the following locations:
- 22 – Auckland
- 3 – Bay of Plenty
- 4 – Canterbury
- 1 – Hawke's Bay
- 1 – Manawatū-Whanganui
- 1 – National
- 3 – Nelson-Marlborough
- 2 – Northland
- 11 – Online
- 2 – Otago
- 57 – Overseas
- 7 – Waikato
- 9 – Wellington