Celebrated arts organisation Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust loses main funding source after 40 years
The Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust, a prominent New Zealand arts organization, has lost its primary funding from Creative New Zealand. The trust is now reviewing its future operations after four decades of supporting Pacific artists.
Why it matters
The loss of major public funding threatens the survival of a key cultural institution that has nurtured generations of Pacific creative talent.
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Then Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern helps open the Tautai Gallery, run by the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust, in Auckland in July 2020. Photo / Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts
A gallery and launchpad for contemporary Pasifika arts in New Zealand for four decades has lost its main source of funding and is reviewing its future.
The Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is facing a “significant turning point” after its application to Creative New Zealand’s arts organisation and groups funding programme was unsuccessful.
Over the years, the trust has nurtured the careers of generations of Pacific artists , including John Pule, Michel Tuffery, Teremoana Rapley and Samoan master stone carver and painter, the late Johnny Reuelu Penisula.
The organisation receives support from other partners and funders but its main source of funding is from Creative New Zealand (CNZ).
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