Te Waka Toi supports artist-in-residence programme at Waikato University 28-May-02
Te Waka Toi, the Maori arts board of Creative New Zealand, has supported its first artist-in-residence programme in its latest funding round.
Waikato University's Maori Studies Department has been offered a grant of $26,000 towards its residency programme. The selected artist will be able to develop his or her own work, at the same time working with the students to provide theoretical and practical tuition. Te Waka Toi supports artist-in-residence programme at Waikato University 28-May-02
Te Waka Toi, the Maori arts board of Creative New Zealand, has supported its first artist-in-residence programme in its latest funding round.
Waikato University's Maori Studies Department has been offered a grant of $26,000 towards its residency programme. The selected artist will be able to develop his or her own work, at the same time working with the students to provide theoretical and practical tuition.Te Waka Toi Chair Elizabeth Ellis says the residency programme will have a number of positive spin-offs.
"Both the artist and the students will benefit," she says. "This is something that should be encouraged, not only in Aotearoa but in partnership with similar institutions internationally. It's an excellent opportunity for an artform to be developed, exhibited, taught and learnt within the modern context of a university."
The artist will assist in the teaching of a course started in 1999 with a traditional Maori arts base, deliver a lecture and run workshops, as well as exhibiting his or her own work.
"While Te Waka Toi has contributed significantly to this project, we see it as a partnership with the university that will benefit Maori arts and artists," Ms Ellis says.
In this funding round, Te Waka Toi received 88 applications seeking more than $1.8 million. A total of $703,814 was offered to 56 projects.
Te Waka Toi has five funding programmes to which artists and art organisations can apply: Heritage Arts, Experiencing Maori Arts, Te Reo, New Work and Indigenous Links.
Under the Heritage Arts funding programme, a series of wananga for Moriori cultural development was supported. Te Waka Toi offered a grant of $30,000 to the Hokotehi Moriori Trust of the Chatham Islands to support wananga with Moriori on the revitalisation of their culture and tikanga. These wananga will be held throughout New Zealand in June 2002.
"These wananga will be major steps for Moriori in their efforts to reconnect with their culture, heritage and tipuna," Ms Ellis says.
Grants offered to other wananga include:
Under the Heritage Arts funding programme, grants were offered to several marae supporting artworks. These include:
Under the New Works funding programme, Taranaki-based artist Julie Kipa was offered a $4000 grant to create new work for a solo exhibition at the Portfolio Gallery in Auckland. Kipa's first solo exhibition since graduating with a visual arts degree from Massey University last year, the work will look at the cultural intersection between the number of Maori who smoke and those with ta moko.
"Julie has already made an impact as a ta moko artist, art critic and curator," Elizabeth Ellis says. "The grant will help her pursue her chosen career path."
Other projects offered under the New Works funding programme include:
The closing date for the next project funding round is 26 July 2002.
Anyone wishing to apply for a grant to Te Waka Toi should contact:
Muriwai Ihakara
Maori Arts Advisor
Creative New Zealand
Wellington
Phone: 04-498 0734
or Eynon Delamere
Maori Arts Advisor
Creative New Zealand
Auckland
Phone: 09-373 3066