Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Announces New SHIFT Program Awardees for 2021
PORTLAND, Oregon, September 30, 2021 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce the first cohort of…
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Transforming Community
2021 SHIFT AWARDS
PORTLAND, Oregon, September 30, 2021 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce the first cohort of the SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program awardees. Following a national open call for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists, applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals in multiple areas of expertise. Fifteen projects were selected to receive a $100,000 two-year award designed to support artists and community projects responding to social, environmental and economic justice issues to draw increased attention to Native communities…
THANK YOU
Thank you to our community of supporters!
NACF is grateful for gifts with commitments received from the following Foundations, Corporations and Tribes over the last quarter.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
James F & Marion L Miller Foundation
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
PROGRAMS
ABOUT
GIVING
NEWS
We are forever grateful to the Native nations and tribes, foundations, nonprofits, businesses, and individuals who have so generously enabled the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to provide the following assistance as of June 30, 2021:
$0
Total program support
1
Total awards
1
Native artists and organizations
1
Different states and the District of Columbia
I was taught that our arts carry the spirit of the people. It is through art that we know ourselves. It’s through art into the world and it is through art cultures will be remembered.
– Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) NACF Board Chair & U.S. Poet Laureate
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NEWS, UPDATES & EVENTS
New 2021 LIFT Program Launches
NACF was pleased to host a two-day virtual program orientation for our new LIFT awardees on July 21-22, 2021. The LIFT…
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Art That Connects Us – A Visit with Mentor Artist Fellow Brenda Mallory
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person activity across the nation last year, Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation) had just received…
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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
NACF is pleased to partner with Dance/USA to share news of the following fellowship opportunity: Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA)…
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A Feast of Light and Shadows – A Yale Union Exhibition at CNAC
As part of our mission, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) collaborates with Native artists and organizations committed to…
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Request For Proposals: Evaluation Consultant/Team
OVERVIEW The Native Arts and Cultures Organization (NACF) is seeking an evaluation consultant / team to support the organization in…
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