Upcoming Exhibition
Citizen Fellow: Art as Archive and Memory opens at The Center for Native Arts and Cultures September 19. The exhibition offers a sampling of the past fifteen years of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellows work and perspectives who have inspired and centralized cultural consciousness in their practices.
Newly Updated Artist Resources Page
The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation is dedicated to supporting the creativity of Indigenous artists across the country. Explore our revamped Resources for Artists page, now featuring the latest opportunities for grants, workshops, residencies, and more—all designed to support your artistic journey!
Pictured: Mikaela Shafer (Hopi), 2023 LIFT Awardee
Join Our Membership Program
Being a member is one of the best ways to help us advance our growing impact – supporting the power of art and storytelling, and investing in Native artists and culture bearers.
Learn more about NACF membership and join our community of members today!
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:
Total program support
Total awards
Native artists and organizations
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