Arts Board of Creative New Zealand
The Arts Board of Creative New Zealand supports the arts of all New Zealanders through allocating funding to specific arts projects, arts organisations and individual artists. The Arts Board is not a governing body. This function is carried out by the Arts Council.
Purpose/Functions:
The Arts Board allocates project grants and develops initiatives supporting artists and arts organisations. It also allocates annual or multi-year funding to most of New Zealand's key professional arts organisations.
The Arts Board also allocates funding through the Pacific Arts Committee to the arts of the Pacific peoples of New Zealand.
Board Appointments:
The Board has seven members including the Chair.
Members of the Arts Board are appointed by the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage for a term of up to three years and members are eligible for re-appointment.
The Arts Board appoints members of the Pacific Arts Committee, with the Chair of the Committee being a member of the Arts Board (currently Pele Walker).
Skills and Experience:
Specific skills required for this Board include:
- a blend of knowledge of professional and community arts
- the need to balance the inclusion of practising artists from a variety of art forms, and also from around New Zealand, with the risk of an unsustainable level of conflict of interest
- knowledge, culturally diverse backgrounds, and rural and urban backgrounds appropriate to the function of the board.
Time Commitment:
Approximately 13 sitting days per annum: one one-day meeting, two two-day meetings, one three-day meeting, one joint Council / arts boards meeting and four days on peer assessment committees.
Board Membership (expiry of term in brackets):
- Alan Sorrell – Chair (June 2010)
- Kate De Goldi (June 2009)
- Michael Prentice (June 2009)
- Terry Snow (June 2011)
- Pele Walker (June 2009)
- Sid Ashton (June 2010)
- Penny Eames (June 2010)