CFAs: Earle Creativity Trust Grants in Visual Arts and Science & Technology (New Zealand)

• Visual Arts
  • The Trust encourages individual and group creativity, and offers help with resourcing for artistic outcomes that will be accessible to the public in one form or another, for example, displayed in public buildings or publicly available spaces as appropriate.
  • The Trust encourages the creation of novel work of visual artistic merit in any media or technique. The community benefits from having visual artistic objects in their district and available for general inspection and appreciation, and from having creative artists working here.
• Science & Technology
  • Science and technology provide the framework for practical human life as we know it. They have become highly developed over many years. Science essentially provides them with the ‘whys’ for their activities, and Technology with the ‘hows’.
  • The development and extension of science and technology depend on continual refreshment from the ideas of people, and then the building of these ideas into practical outcomes.

Scope

• Visual Arts
  • Grants will be substantially in the area of producing novel works of visual artistic merit. A visual art object for this purpose is a novel creation, displayed in two or three dimensions, and accepted by a knowledgeable group as showing substantial artistic merit. It can be formed from a wide variety of media and techniques and can include electronic and mechanical processes as well as structures and decorations. Its purpose in the first instance must be artistic display accessible to the public, rather than commercial or domestic reasons.
  • Beneficiaries could include individuals, or groups. Grants will encourage technical abilities and result in artworks which will become available for the benefit of the districts as well as the recipients.
• Science & Technology
  • Grants will be substantially in the area of technology (and background science where needed). Possibilities are wide, including aspects of engineering, metalworking, electronics, information technology, ceramics, woodworking, processing of biological or other materials including food, manufacturing. Beneficiaries could include individuals or groups, including small and medium-sized businesses.
  • Anyone resident in or closely connected with, the Manawatū and Rangitīkei region can apply. The grants will be for individuals or groups working in suitable environments, building knowledge, skills and products and embodying their creative ideas in tangible items such as designs or software or prototype products. There may be ideas which need more information, or design work, or enhanced understanding of the concept, or background knowledge, or assessment of consumer needs, product prototypes. It might be possible to suggest support for projects where local expertise is available.
  • Grants should encourage technical abilities and technology in the region, and so result in charitable outcomes for the benefit of the districts, such as job creation.

Funding Information

• The Trust plans to award $50,000 for Science & Technology and $50,000 for Visual Arts.
• The minimum grant is usually $5,000.

Uses of the Funds 

• Visual Arts
  • Mostly the grants will be for individuals or groups working in suitable environments and building knowledge and skills, and also to embody the creative ideas in tangible items such as designs or software as well as creating the final artwork. There may be an idea but to grow it may require more information, or materials, or design work, or other preparatory work including models or prototypes.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be residents of or closely connected to the Manawatū and Rangitīkei region.
• Have a project relating to Visual Arts or Science & Technology.
• While tertiary students are eligible to apply for grants, these grants are only available to secondary school students when the application is made by a secondary school on behalf of a group project.
• A person or group can make more than one application. Each is treated as an independent application.

For more information, visit Earle Creativity Trust.