Public Art Fund FY25/26- Applications under $50,000

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Fund Priorities, Eligibility and Privacy

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Fund Priorities and Eligibility (Not Applicable)

The Public Art Fund is Tauranga City Council’s dedicated fund for public art.

Public Art is any artwork that is in the public realm and is accessible to the general public. This is regardless of whether it is situated on public or private property.

Public Art comes in many forms, including but not limited to, sculpture, murals, mahi toi, integrated architectural or landscape architectural work, community art, mosaics, digital new media, lightworks, sound art, land art, installation, and more transitory forms like performance art.[1]

If your full project budget is $50,000 or less, there will be four rounds in the 2025-2026 financial year.

If your full project budget is $50,001 or more, there will be two rounds in the 2025-2026 financial year.

Please click the links for the Public Art Fund Framework and the Public Art Fund Framework Toolkit.

For more information, please contact Community Funding Services at publicart@tauranga.govt.nz

[1] Performance art is defined as an artwork created through actions. It is not the same as the performing arts, such as dance, drama, kapa haka, or musical performances.

Privacy (Not Applicable)

Tauranga City Council (Council) is collecting information from you as part of this application, some of this information may be personal information. This includes your name, contact details, role, organisation info, bank account details and may include application responses or supporting information (including reporting). Your information and any supporting documents may be used to assess and process this application, verify information you have provided, administer and manage this grant, contact or notify you about any matter relevant to the grant and/or application (including monitoring and compliance of the grant funding terms and conditions), and to update you from time to time about our grant programmes. This application contains some fields that are mandatory, if you do not provide us with this information, we will be unable to process your application. We will not share your personal information with any other organisation or individual unless they are our contractor or other relevant 3rd party and disclosure is necessary for the specified purposes above. You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you would like a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at info@tauranga.govt.nz, or 07 577 7000. For further information about how Council will handle your personal information, please refer to Tauranga City Council’s Online Grant Privacy Statement.

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I have read and understand the above Privacy Statement; and

any personal information I include about any other person(s) in this application has been provided with their permission and can be used for the purposes identified above.

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Privacy Declaration (Not Applicable)

I declare that I have read the privacy information and I am comfortable to proceed with the application.