OPEN CALL

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce its open call for two new award programs. After a year of strategic planning and working closely with our network of artists, grantees and stakeholders, NACF moves into its second decade with SHIFT– Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts , a two-year program designed to support artist and community-driven projects responding to social, environmental or economic justice issues through a Native lens. NACF is also launching LIFT– Early Career Support for Native Artists, a one-year award and early career support program for emerging Native artists to develop and realize new projects.

SHIFT is a monetary award totaling $100,000 for two years, with $50,000 of the award earmarked for the lead artist or artist collective. Up to ten projects will be selected to receive SHIFT awards.

DEADLINE: NACF is now accepting Letters of Interest (LOI) for the SHIFT program until Tuesday March 16, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. Notifications will be sent in late April 2021.

Download a pdf of the SHIFT open call flyer!

LIFT is a monetary award of $10,000 for a proposed project with $2,500 earmarked for the artist’s benefit and wellbeing. Up to twenty artists will be selected to receive LIFT awards.

DEADLINE: NACF is now accepting applications for the LIFT program until March 16, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time. Notifications will be sent in late May 2021.

Download a pdf of the LIFT open call flyer.