The Arts Foundation has come under the management of a third-party agency as it launches a raft of new initiatives aimed at increasing the visibility of the arts in New Zealand. Instead, Jo Blair, founder and director of Brown Bread, is stepping in as Arts Foundation lead. Arts Foundation An example of a Boosted page for a theatre show looking for crowd-sourced funding. Former Telecom chief executive Theresa Gattung has endowed an Arts Foundation award in her name. As lead of the Arts Foundation, Blair said, her goal was to "build a new nationwide, giving-collective supporting artists".

Source: Stuff May 22, 2019 18:00 UTC