'Heartbreaking': Arts organisation loses main funding source after 40 years

PremiumVaimoana MasePasifika Editor·NZ Herald·29 Aug, 2026 09:00 PM6 mins to read‌Then Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern helps open the Tautai Gallery, run by the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust, in Auckland in July 2020. Photo / Tautai Contemporary Pacific ArtsA gallery and launchpad for contemporary Pasifika arts in New Zealand for four decades has lost its main source of funding and is reviewing its future.

The Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is facing a “significant turning point” after its application to Creative New Zealand’s arts

'Heartbreaking': Arts organisation loses main funding source after 40 years

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