Creative People's Centre

Important Creative New Zealand Survey of Emerging Young Arts Practitioners

CNZ is undertaking research whose purpose is to profile the professional development of promising young emerging arts practitioners in order to inform policy development around how the Arts Council can best support them. It will form part of broader policy about young people and the arts in New Zealand.

An important part of this research involves a survey of emerging young arts practitioners throughout the country. If you feel you fit the following description and would like to take part in the survey, please follow this link by clicking here.

The arts practitioners CNZ is interested in will:

• have excelled and/or demonstrated promise in their chosen form of arts practice
• be aged between 18 and 30 years
• have made a positive commitment to the arts i.e. they have made a conscious decision to develop their chosen form of arts practice to a    professional standard
• be in their first five years of committed arts practice
• be actively involved in the arts
• currently ‘doing’, ‘producing’ or ‘supporting’ art, and with a track record of doing so; and/or currently training to further develop their art.

Arts practitioners are defined as artists, writers and practitioners in all forms of arts practice currently recognised through CNZ funding bodies, including heritage-based (e.g. Māori, Pacific or Western arts) and contemporary forms of arts practice (media, digital arts etc.).  The term practitioner also includes people who enable an arts project to occur. This may include producers, managers, technicians, publishers, curators, agents, dealers and community arts organisers. Practitioners are people who may not necessarily classify themselves as “artists”, but who may be necessary for creating, presenting and/or distributing an artwork.