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Tag: Advocacy

Home Posts Tagged "Advocacy"

Can You Name #5WomenArtists?

Advocacy and Education, Blog2018, Advocacy, EducationMarch 8, 2018Valerie Egan

Can you name five women artists? Many people can’t. If you can, it probably takes you much longer to think of five female artists than five male artists. Now, try to name five women artists of color. Join us in the #5WomenArtists campaign.

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Save the NEA

Advocacy and Education, Blog2018, AdvocacyFebruary 23, 2018Valerie Egan
The following is a statement on behalf of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, regarding recent proposals to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, among other agencies critical to the vitality and growth of arts and cultures in the...
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#psotu2018, courtesy of the United States Department of Arts and Culture

To change the world, we have to change the story. #PSOTU2018

Advocacy and Education, Blog2018, Advocacy, Community EngagementDecember 28, 2017Valerie Egan
What if the annual State of the Union was not a speech spoken by one, but a poem created by many? The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in partnership with the people-powered U.S. Department of Arts and Culture invites you...
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Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot, born 1988), “Anima (In-Between Worlds series)” detail (2012), digital chromogenic print.

Native Art Now! Documentary Offers Insights into Contemporary Native Arts

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Education, Support for Native Arts and CulturesDecember 18, 2017Valerie Egan
Click here to watch the full 57 minute documentary. Native Art Now! is a new exhibition of some of the best contemporary Native American artworks of the past 25 years, on view at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and...
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Lulani Arquette, President & CEO of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, 2017.

Aloha and Thank You to the Native Arts and Cultures Community

Blog2017, About NACF, Advocacy, Community Engagement, For Artists, Support for Native Arts and CulturesDecember 14, 2017Valerie Egan
On behalf of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation staff and Board of Directors, President and CEO Lulani Arquette extends her thanks to those who share our belief in the beauty and power of Native Arts and Cultures! Mahalo, Sepk'eec'a,...
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Deva Leinani Aiko Yamashiro, Governor’s Heritage Award Recipient 2017

Blog2017, Advocacy, Leadership, Native Hawaiian, WashingtonNovember 16, 2017gaby
NACF staff and board members honored the legacy of Deva Leinani Aiko Yamashiro who was one of the recipients of this year’s Washington State Governor’s Arts & Heritage Award. The award ceremony was held on November 14 at the Museum...
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Sculptors Respond: Indigenous (hi)Story, Land and “Belonging” in an Era of Anti-Immigration

2017 Founders Fund, Blog2017, Advocacy, Event, Missouri, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Visual ArtsNovember 16, 2017Valerie Egan
Kansas City, Missouri - In October 2017, the 27th Annual International Sculpture Conference featured the panel Indigenous Sculptors Respond: Indigenous (hi)Story, Land and "Belonging" in an Era of Anti-Immigration, moderated by artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla) and featuring speakers Rose B....
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Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives

2016 Founders Fund, Blog2017, Advocacy, Event, Grantee, New York, Program Support, Visual ArtsNovember 14, 2017Valerie Egan
New York City, New York - Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives, focuses on contemporary indigenous artist perspectives and practices, grounded in innovative projects. This colloquium series, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has consisted of three...
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Advocating for Native Arts on a National Stage

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, About NACF, Advocacy, Illinois, LeadershipOctober 24, 2017Valerie Egan
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation staff will speak to issues affecting the national arts and cultures sector this fall at the 2017 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Detroit. On October 28, 2017, Director of Programs Francene Blythe speaks on...
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#HonorNativeLand – A guide to respectfully acknowledge ancestral lands

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Community EngagementOctober 3, 2017Valerie Egan

In countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and among tribal nations in the U.S., it is commonplace, even policy, to open events and gatherings by acknowledging the traditional Indigenous inhabitants of that land. While some individuals and cultural and educational institutions in the United States have adopted this custom, the vast majority have not. Together, we can spark a movement to change that.

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Evaluating Community Arts-Based Projects – A Native Arts and Cultures Perspective

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Leadership, WashingtonSeptember 21, 2017Valerie Egan
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation President & CEO Lulani Arquette will speak at the 2017 Philanthropy Northwest Conference in Vancouver, Washington this October, joining the panel Social Change Through Art: New Frameworks for Assessing Community Impact to help educate community...
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Arts, Politics, Spirit: Braided Activism for Culture Shift

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Arts & Education, California, LeadershipJuly 5, 2017Valerie Egan
As part of NACF's ongoing efforts to advocate and educate the arts and cultural sector on the rich, complex and infinitely exciting world of contemporary Native arts and cultures, NACF President and CEO Lulani Arquette will speak this October at...
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Advocacy: Arts, Social Change, and Impact

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Social ChangeJune 21, 2017gaby
NACF Addresses Social Change, Art, and Impact In 2014, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) launched a new initiative, the Community Inspiration Program (CIP).  The basic program strategy was to identify and fund unique projects that are led or...
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights NACF: “Smarter Grantmaking in Action”

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, About NACF, Advocacy, Support for Native Arts and CulturesMay 30, 2017Valerie Egan

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations recently highlighted the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s work to empower Indigenous communities through capacity building, highlighting its evaluation process and findings through the Community Inspiration Program. “In each of the projects, the artists wanted to…

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NACF Addresses Social Change, Art, and Evaluation

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, About NACF, Advocacy, California, EventMay 25, 2017Valerie Egan

Updated June 14, 2017: As part of NACF’s ongoing work to advocate for awareness, revitalization and the support of contemporary Native arts and cultures, President/CEO Lulani Arquette will present on two panels while at the 2017 Annual Americans for the…

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Arts & Cultural Equity: Current Examples & Relevant Strategies

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, OregonMay 23, 2017Valerie Egan

On May 12, 2017, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation staff attended Arts & Cultural Equity: Current Examples & Relevant Strategies, forum organized by the University of Oregon’s Arts Administration program and its Center for Community Arts & Cultural Policy. This…

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Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Stands with the NEA & NEH

Blog2017, Advocacy, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the HumanitiesApril 28, 2017Valerie Egan
As an organization with a mission to support American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists in all disciplines – visual artists, including those in film and video, as well as musicians, choreographers, writers, traditional artists, and culture bearers –...
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Take Action April 4th – #Revolution Of Values

Advocacy and Education, Blog2017, Advocacy, Community Engagement, EventMarch 7, 2017Elizabeth Madrigal

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is proud to be a partner in #RevolutionOfValues, a day of creative action on April 4th, 2017, the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s powerful speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.”

Fifty years later, to walk in his footsteps, to give voice once again to his powerful words, and to kick off a year of efforts by many organizations around the U.S. to remind people of Dr. King’s real message and unfinished work, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and partners are sponsoring #RevolutionOfValues.

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Socially Engaged Art: A Standing Rock Round Up

Blog2017, Advocacy, Community Engagement, Social Change, Standing RockFebruary 14, 2017Valerie Egan
Several Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellows, past and present, have been vocal advocates for the Water Protectors of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, a historic gathering of Indigenous Nations and allies on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, in response...
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Forget Me Not: Mothers and Sons by Marie Watt (Seneca), NACF Visual Arts Fellow, on view at the Portland Art Museum.

NACF President Profiled by Philanthropy Northwest

Advocacy and Education, Blog2016, About NACF, Advocacy, LeadershipOctober 27, 2016Valerie Egan

Lulani Arquette, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation President & CEO, spoke last spring with Philanthropy Northwest about the challenges,  successes, and opportunities she has encountered through her leadership of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. You can read the full…

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