2022 OPEN CALL: LIFT Program Applications
LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is now accepting applications for…
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Transforming Community
With your support, we can immediately advance the work of Native artists and culture bearers who positively contribute to their communities across the country. Watch the interview above to learn more about NACF and the contemporary Native artists we support!
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.
Arnerich Massena
Emerick Architects
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
James F & Marion L Miller Foundation
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
Maxwell | Hanrahan Foundation
Meritus Property Group, LLC
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
City of Portland’s PDX Recovery & Events Action Table
Rainbow Pineapple Foundation
The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
PROGRAMS
ABOUT
GIVING
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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
Remembering NACF Artists Lost in 2021
With heavy hearts, we remember two NACF artists who passed last year. Culture bearer, educator, and fiber artist Royce Manuel…
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2021 in Review
At Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF), we consider the new year a time to reflect on all that we…
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A Gift For Thriving Native Arts and Cultures
At Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, we invest in the power of arts as an agent for transformational change rooted…
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WEBINAR: Native Artists as Leaders
PANEL DISCUSSION Please join Native Arts and Cultures Foundation for a conversation between Native artists whose practices reimagine a better…
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Exhibition Meshes Tradition & Contemporary Native Culture
Mesh Portland Art Museum November 6 thru May 8, 2022 In 2017, NACF launched the Mentor Artist Fellowship program awarding…
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