PORTLAND, Oregon, September 13, 2023 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is excited to announce the new 2023 LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program awardees!…
While NACF has always been headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, our roots in the Oregon community have been expanding through our new national headquarters at the Center for Native Arts…
At the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, our hearts are heavy with the news of the lives that have been lost and the devastating wildfires that have destroyed Lahaina town…
At Native Arts and Cultures Foundation we are mourning the loss of visionary leader Frank Blythe (Eastern Cherokee/Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) on July 21, 2023. One of Frank Blythe’s many notable achievements…
Recently some of the NACF staff gathered to take a little road trip to Grand Ronde, Oregon to visit the exhibit “My Father’s Father’s Sister: Our Ancestor Shimkhin” at Chachalu…
One of the most influential, respected, and tireless tribal leaders in Oregon history, Kathryn Harrison has walked on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the age of 99. Kathryn was born…
We are so grateful to everyone who joined us for the opening of the Nationally traveling exhibition featuring Alaska Native art – Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, on May 19th. Exhibit…
The first week of May is National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness week, culminating on Friday, May 5th as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous…
It is with mixed emotions that we announce the transition of our beloved Founding President & Chief Executive Officer, Lulani Arquette from her role as President/CEO of Native Arts &…
On March 25th in Portland, Oregon, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) had the pleasure to celebrate and showcase the latest documentary short by 2022 LIFT program awardee Loren Waters…
The Story of Everything began as a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) Community Inspiration project with its creator, Hawai’i’s First Poet Laureate Kealoha Wong. The performance is an epic…
This March the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) staff had the opportunity to see Native plays and connect with some of the incredibly talented performers. First we had the…
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce its open call for two important programs, the LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists and the SHIFT – Transformative…
For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth NACF partnered with Josué Rivas (Mexica and Otomi) Founder and Creative Director of INDÍGENA to bring visibility to the original people of these lands and begin a conversation…
Emily Johnson, IV Castellanos rehearsal for Being Future Being: Inside / Outwards at New York Live ArtsEmily Johnson, IV Castellanos, Kevin Holden - Pre Production for Being Future Being: Inside…
Left to right: Trevino Brings Plenty (Minneconjou Lakota), Rena Priest (Lummi Nation), Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee/Seneca/Miami), Brenna Two Bears, Ei-Shah Pirtle-Wright (Warm Springs, Siletz, Klamath & Modoc) and Alma Tapio…
From Indigenous Peoples Day to Native American Heritage Month, this is a busy time for Native-led organizations — and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is no different. NACF took…
We are excited to announce the release of The Larger Voice: Celebrating the Work of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellows. This is the first publication by NACF that…
Over the course of the last two weeks, September 8 – 18, the Time Based Art festival (TBA) welcomed artists from around the world for a series of performances, also…
PORTLAND, Oregon, September 8, 2022 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce the new 2022 LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program awardees.…
NACF congratulates SWAIA (Southwestern Association for Indian Arts) as the celebrate their 100th Indian Market on August 21-22, in Santa Fe, New Mexico! If you’re attending Indian Market this year…
Mesh Portland Art Museum November 6, 2021 thru May 8, 2022 The Mesh exhibition closed on May 8 after six months at the Portland Art Museum (PAM), in Portland, Oregon.…
A wholehearted thank you to the more than 550 people who joined us on April 22-23 in Portland, Oregon, to bring our new home to life. The two-day event included…
Lulani Arquette - President/CEOAno’ai Kakou, Looking back at all we have been through in the last year and moving into the dawn of 2022, we are reminded of the opportunities…
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures in Portland, Oregon. “Where the Waters Come Together” explores…
We are excited to announce that Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is publishing a literary anthology that highlights the work of many of our National Artist Fellows in literature. The…
Our hearts are heavy with the loss of artist Jim Denomie (Ojibwe) who passed away on March 1, 2022, at his home in Minnesota. Jim was an NACF National Artist…
This webinar will provide an overview and information on how to apply to Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program. The foundation is…
LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is now accepting applications for the LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists program, a one-year award…
With heavy hearts, we remember two NACF artists who passed last year. Culture bearer, educator, and fiber artist Royce Manuel (Auk-Mierl Aw-Thum) passed on July 19, 2021, in Scottsdale, AZ.…
At Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF), we consider the new year a time to reflect on all that we have accomplished and a time to give thanks to all…
At Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, we invest in the power of arts as an agent for transformational change rooted in our Native stories, our strengths and our journeys as…
PANEL DISCUSSION Please join Native Arts and Cultures Foundation for a conversation between Native artists whose practices reimagine a better world and inspire and empower others to do the same.…
This November, we celebrate Indigenous people’s rich history and contributions as we work to shift a narrative of historical inaccuracies and promote equity and cultural empowerment through a Native lens.…
NACF is in this year’s Willamette Week‘s Give!Guide. The Give!Guide makes giving to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation easy and fun. With your gift, you will support our vision to realize…
After a year and a half of virtual events, we were finally able to hold our first in-person gathering at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures (CNAC) since taking…
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…
NACF was pleased to host a two-day virtual program orientation for our new LIFT awardees on July 21-22, 2021. The LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program provides invaluable support…
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person activity across the nation last year, Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation) had just received a 2020 Mentor Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and…
NACF is pleased to partner with Dance/USA to share news of the following fellowship opportunity: Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) is a national program that supports individual dance artists, funded…
As part of our mission, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) collaborates with Native artists and organizations committed to increasing awareness and deeper understanding of Indigenous arts and culture…