As an artist, Lani Hotch continually focuses her work and ambitions on the resurgence of traditional arts in her community.
Wayne Valliere has devoted four decades of his life to the preservation of his people’s arts, language, and culture.
Laura Wong-Whitebear is dedicated to utilizing and preserving traditional basket-weaving knowledge and has chosen an apprentice with the same commitment.
Royce Manuel is revitalizing an endangered art form, fiber weaving from harvested desert plants, which has not been practiced or taught for nearly eighty years.
Miller follows what was passed to him by his tribal elders. He teaches the Tuwaduq (Skokomish) words that correspond with the artwork that his students create as well as the traditional practices that go along with crafting the art. He wants those he teaches to also pass on this traditional knowledge and in doing so, this generation may become the advisors and leaders of the Skokomish and Chehalis people in the future.
Shirod Younker is an experienced culture bearer having researched his tribe’s lost historic and traditional knowledge, and now teaching it to the next generation.
Delina White is devoted to Anishinaabe Inendamowin (thought/ways of thinking) and keeps her Anishinaabe woodland designs and history alive through her artwork.
Navajo weaving has been passed for generations in TahNibaa Naataanii’s family along with songs or stories that come along with each woven piece.
2016 was a good year for traditional ash Wabanaki basket weaver Theresa Secord (Penobscot Nation). In June 2016 she was named a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow, and in September honored as a National Endowment for the…
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced on June 30, 2016 awards to nine artists, among them three of Native heritage: NACF 2015 Artist Fellow Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit T’ak Dein…
For thousands of years, master Native artists have dedicated time, resources, and support to the next generation, passing on the skills, arts practice, and cultural understanding needed to perpetuate visual and traditional arts and lifeways. Yet in today’s fast-paced and…
As the founding executive director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Theresa Secord has dedicated her life to learning, revitalizing and perpetuating the tradition of Wabanaki basket making.
April Stone-Dahl is attempting to revive an ancient art form, by learning and teaching Black Ash basket weaving, that no one else in her locale is doing.
We are saddened to report that Amelia Cornelius walked on in early 2016 after lifetime dedicated to passing on tradition in her family by teaching the next generation how to make traditional Oneida dolls the same way her grandmother taught her.
Kelly Church comes from a long family line of Anishnabe black ash basket makers. She is also an Art activist working to perpetuate the traditional practice before the Michigan black ash trees become extinct.
David A. Boxley is a master carver whose intricate designs pay homage to his ancestors in order to ensure that the art form that was almost lost endures.
