Creative Fellowships, Arts Residencies and Skills Exchanges

⁠⁠⁠This Program provides funding to artists across art forms and creative practice, including dance, literature, music, theatre, visual arts and community arts.

This opportunity is not solely for the development or delivery of new work, but to assist in acquiring new skills, knowledge and networks to support career development. Creative Fellowships support established Northern Territory artists and arts workers to undertake a sustained period of research or professional development. Submissions must provide a self-directed program with timeline and locations of proposed activities and statement on how the activity will impact and build the applicant’s career, and contribute to arts and cultural development in the Northern Territory.

Applicants for Creative Fellowships must have had a minimum of six years professional arts practice in the Northern Territory and have made a significant contribution to the arts, culture and creative industries. Applicants under the Arts Residency or Skills Exchange categories must be early or mid-career. Arts Residencies and Skills Exchanges provides funding to support early and mid-career artists and arts workers to access structured professional development, skills exchanges and mentoring from leading Northern Territory art sector professionals. This category prioritises opportunities that directly benefit capacity building opportunities for Aboriginal and remote artists, and arts workers

• Arts Residencies must submit details of confirmed residency program with partnering organisation, location, outcomes, timelines and locations of proposed activities and statement on how the activity will impact and build the applicant’s career and the arts and cultural development in the Northern Territory.
• Skills Exchanges must submit details of confirmed structured skills exchange program and outcomes with timeline and locations of proposed exchange and statement on how the activity will impact the applicant’s career and contribute to arts and cultural development in the Northern Territory. At this time, international travel is not supported through this category due to the impact of COVID-1