A facilitator of private philanthropy, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand supports artistic excellence through its permanent Endowment Fund. Legacies and donations help grow the Fund, with income generated enabling the Foundation to support the arts.
The Foundation produces Award programmes that provide recognition and support to artists working at the highest levels in all art forms. By the end of 2010, the Foundation will have honoured 112 artists and distributed $3.65 million to the arts.
Foundation Awards celebrate significant achievement at different stages of artists’ careers and are presented on an annual or biannual basis.
New Zealand’s most senior artists are honoured at the Icon Awards. These Awards recognise a lifetime of achievements and are considered the Foundation’s highest honour. Artists whose careers are in full flight, receive $50,000NZD each in recognition of achievements to date and as an investment in their future at the Laureate Awards. Artists who are in the early stages of their career receive $25,000NZD each at the New Generation Awards. In partnership, the Foundation produces the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award, of $25,000NZD to assist the career of a photographer, and the Harriet Friedlander Residency, which is a residency in New York valued at $80,000NZD. In 2011 the inaugural Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award will be made. This Award will be presented every two years to a children’s book illustrator with published work of a high standard and includes a no-strings cash gift of $10,000.
Supporters of the arts are also recognised. Every year an individual, couple or trust is honoured with the Award for Patronage and are gifted $20,000NZD by the Foundation to distribute to artists or art projects of their choice. From time to time the Foundation also honours an individual or institution that has contributed significantly to the arts through the Governors’ Award.
Recipients of Awards are selected without their knowing they are under consideration by independent panels of arts peers or curators.
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