TahNibaa Naataanii is revitalizing Navajo weaving and strengthening community through practicing and sharing ancestral ways of weaving and pastoral lifeway processes.
2020 Mentor Artist Fellowship
April Stone
A self-taught traditional basket weaver, April Stone has been researching, practicing, and teaching the endangered art of Black-Ash weaving for over two decades.
Cliff Fragua
Sculptor Cliff Fragua is dedicated to advancing and perpetuating Jemez Pueblo traditions, values, arts and culture through his carvings and teachings.
Nathan P Jackson
Nathan P. Jackson is a highly-regarded artist and culture bearer within the Tlingit community and well beyond.
Gerald Clarke Jr.
Gerald Clarke Jr. expresses his Cahuilla perspective as a twenty-first century citizen of the world embracing the passion, pain, and reverence he feels as a contemporary Cahuilla person.
Jackie Larson Bread
Jackie Larson Bread began beading at a young age, influenced first by her grandmother’s work, and then later incorporated the artistic skills she developed over the years into the intricate, pictorial-style beadwork she creates today.
Earl Atchak
Earl Atchak is a traditional practitioner and an accomplished artist, who utilizes wood, ivory and other natural materials in his carvings, sculptures, and jewelry.
Ral Takook Christman
Ral Takook Christman is an educator, fluent speaker of the Kumeyaay language, a lifelong traditional Bird-Singer, orator, and facilitator of traditional Kumeyaay tribal knowledge.
Brenda Mallory
Brenda Mallory is a contemporary mixed-media artist who creates prints, sculptures, installations and other artistic forms from materials which she often deconstructs in order to put them back together again.
Joe Feddersen
Joe Feddersen is a sculptor, painter, photographer and mixed-media artist known for creating artworks that reflect the landscape and his cultural heritage.
Nani Chacon
Nani Chacon is a painter, muralist and educator who focuses on community-engaged work in the public art sector.