Supporting Young Artists'
1 November 2023
Artists’ in Vanuatu are ‘grass roots’ which basically means they have little to no art materials to create with. The trust and volunteers bought art materials from Aotearoa, (NZ) for the workshops with leftovers being donated to the Atelier ( studio ) on the grounds of Suzanne Bastien, The overall aim is to create access to the arts. The NZEIIT trust has provided this programme at the Fondation Suzanne Bastien since 2015 introducing artists’ too new mediums, as an incentive programme to provide future incomes.The students chosen to attend, were up a coming young artists in Port Vila .
One of the artists’ Amelia had just won the Luxembourg Climate Change Award for Vanuatu , which will be displayed along side world wide artists in Luxembourg.Art programmes have also been run in the islands of Vanuatu at the Epi Island High school by the NZEIIT since 2015.A programme in wood cut has been organised for 2024 for the high school students.
The trust aims to run workshops for a period of 2 weeks in Port Vila and then 2 weeks on Epi Island Vanuatu.
Funding comes from donations and volunteers who help with the programme .
In the past NZIIT has brought Ni-Van artists’ to NZ with the support of the Pacific Island Investment Commission.
