Residencies

The Caselberg Trust looks forward to artist applications for the Creative Connections Residency.

Creative Connections Residency is open to people residing in New Zealand, and is focused on projects that reach out and make links across a variety of creative media, professional disciplines, and/or communities relevant to the planned project."

For more information and applications forms: http://www.caselbergtrust.org/?page=residencies 

Michael King Writers Centre

The centre is based in the historic Signalman’s House on the slopes of Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland.

They have a programme of supported residencies for New Zealand writers and offer low-cost accommodation for visiting writers. They also offer specialist workshops and occasional literary events.

To date over 150 New Zealand writers have held residencies at the centre since it opened in 2005 and up to 30 visiting writers stay each year. They welcome and encourage applications from both emerging and established writers from throughout Aotearoa.

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The Fulbright programme offers a range of prestigious exchange awards for New Zealand and American graduate students, academics, artists and professionals to study, research, teach or present their work in each other’s countries. Other awards allow institutions to apply for a visiting Fulbright specialist to assist with their development needs.

More information and guidelines are available on the Fulbright New Zealand website www.fulbright.org.nz/awards 

The McCahon House Trust has built a new, award winning, purpose designed two bedroom accommodation and studio alongside the old McCahon House in French Bay, Titirangi from where an artist's residency is being run. 

The McCahon House residency aims to give artists an opportunity to develop their work through a supportive programme while living in the environment that impacted so profoundly on the work of Colin McCahon. 

The Trust makes one call per year for applicants for a residency.

For more information: www.mccahonhouse.org.nz

Earthskin is a Charitable trust whose mission is environmental stewardship to foster and inspire the creative arts. Earthskin offers the following supports towards building and regenerating communities, devoted to the re-enchantment of our world. Earthskin holds its intent encompassed within its name, with the overall vision of heart – with the care of the earth, art, skin and all kin.

• Earthskin Creative Residency purpose is to support excellence in the creative arts, through offering monthly residencies to established artists wishing to focus and extend their practice.
• Earthskin Environmental Residency Earthskin Environmental Residency purpose is to foster environmental stewardship, through offering monthly residencies to environmental innovators wishing to focus and extend their practice.
• Earthskin Sustainable Community Scholarships Earthskin offers annual scholarships for education, that will build community wellbeing and earth care. These scholarships focus on Permaculture, Biodynamics, Biological Farming, Terraquaculture and Bio-remediation of our land and water.

Earthskin also proudly supports specific environmental initiatives including: The Sustainability Council of New Zealand, Innermost Community Gardens, Te Moata Retreat Center.

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The Community Engagement Programme (formerly the Media Programme and Artists and Writers Programme) plays a crucial part in informing and influencing the public's understanding towards the science and operations in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The aim is to support innovative Community Engagement proposals which align to Antarctica New Zealand's purpose; Inspiring people to connect with Antarctica, through knowledge and collaboration and vision: Valued. Protected. Understood.

This programme encourages media, artists, teachers and writers proposals of the highest quality. The number of opportunities for travel to Antarctica are limited and varies each year with strong competition. We are interested in applications with new and fresh ideas which aim to capture our target audiences. They want applicants to demonstrate their outreach ability and there will be rewards for those who can demonstrate a genuine interest in Antarctica and the environment.

They welcome applications from people/ organisations who share our values, who understand the importance of the science New Zealand supports in Antarctica and are passionate about communicating this message to New Zealand stakeholders and communities.

- See more at: Antarctica NZ

Each year we select an artist to live and work in an Auckland regional park. We choose a different park every year to become home to the artist for an eight-week period, usually from mid October to mid December.

This opportunity is open to visual artists and composers, filmmakers, choreographers, and writers. The goal is for the artist to create a new body of work influenced in some way by the park, or by the residency experience. The work is then shared with the public through an event, exhibition, concert, performance or publication.

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The newly established Visiting Artist Programme of Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery (HAG) offers an annual 8-week residency for Aotearoa artists towards developing a solo exhibition project. The programme is designed to foster new connections within the Te Matau-a-M?ui Hawke’s Bay region and support the development of unique bodies of work.

The inaugural visiting artist for 2024 was Heidi Brickell. Recognising the need for more open opportunities for established Aotearoa artists, HAG is calling for proposals for a residency beginning August 2025, with a subsequent exhibition in February 2026.

The Gallery is seeking projects that will present an opportunity for an artist to make new work that cannot be developed elsewhere. Accommodation and a workspace in Heretaunga Hastings are included, as well as a stipend, research and materials budget, and other forms of support.

Artists must be citizens or legal permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand, based outside of Te Matau-a-M?ui Hawke’s Bay and demonstrate at least eight years of public exhibition practice. They must be able to reside and work full-time in Heretaunga Hastings during the term of the residency.

Applications are due on February 2, 2025.

For more details on the programme and how to apply please visit: https://www.hastingscityartgallery.co.nz/opportunities/