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What should arts philanthrophy in NZ look like today? Lynn talks to philanthropist and digital marketing consultant Anna Connell and Arts Foundation Director Simon Bowden. Lynn also finds out why the New Zealand Arts Foundation is putting most of its annual arts awards on hold while it comes up with a new strategy (Arts Foundation statement here).
The Arts Foundation is one of the main channels for arts philanthropy in this country, and in the 18 years since it started it's given out millions of dollars to hundreds of artists, in the form of new generation and laureate awards, and now runs Boosted. Two of the awards the Foundation manages will still go ahead: the Katherine Mansfield Menton Literary Fellowship, and the Harriet Friedlander Residency
But times they are a changing and that includes how organisations like the Arts Foundation get to a new generation of arts philanthropists. That includes columnist/ journalist Anna Connell, who wrote on Newsroom about becoming an arts patron for online media outlet Newsroom.
