Blog Archives - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) was awarded a 2014 NACF Artist Fellowship in Traditional Arts.

Remembering Shan Goshorn (2014 NACF Artist Fellow)

Blog2018, Artist, Cherokee, Weaving

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) mourns the passing of Cherokee weaver Shan Goshorn (2014 NACF Artist Fellowship), after a long battle with cancer. A treasured member of the NACF family of artists, she was known for her sensitivity...

Please Support the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation!

Blog2018, Alaska Native, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Native Organization, Program Support, Support for Native Arts and Cultures

Aloha Friends, As someone who understands the value of arts and cultures you know that they provide a seed with the potential to transform communities and embrace cultural differences. As Native peoples we are mobilized to tell our stories, to...

2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Royce Manuel

Blog2018, Apprentice, art, Artist, Basketry, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Textile Art, Weaving

2017 NACF Mentor Artist Fellow Royce Manuel (Auk-Mierl Aw-Thum) is a renowned artist in southern Arizona who has spent years researching and documenting desert plant weavings and desert life-ways. Manuel is revitalizing an endangered art form - fiber weaving from harvested desert...

2017 Mentor Fellow Apprentices on Retreat

2018 Founders Fund, Blog2018, Apprentice, Artist, Artist Residency, Arts & Education, For Artists, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Native Identity

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) 2017 Mentor Artist Fellow apprentices culminated their 12-month program this past summer at a week-long residency led by Ka’ila Farrell-Smith and Signal Fire. The residency offered the first group of NACF apprentices the opportunity...

Remembering Cyril Pahinui (2013 National Artist Fellow – Music)

Blog2018, Music, Native Hawaiian

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) mourns the passing of Native Hawaiian slack key guitar player Cyril Pahinui (2013 National Artist Fellow – Music). Known for his warm demeanor and generous spirit, he was a cherished member of the...

2018 National Artist Fellows Convening

Blog2018, About NACF, Alaska Native, Artist, Community Engagement, Convening, Donations, Event, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Oregon, Support for Native Arts and Cultures

Over the course of three days, September 26-28, the eighteen 2018 National Artist Fellows were convened in Portland, Oregon, for sharing and learning from one another, interfacing with the public and discussing ways to strengthen their work and the Native arts...

NACF Fellows Receive Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad Award

2018 Founders Fund, Blog2018, For Artists, National Artist Fellowship, Partnerships, Performing Arts, Support for Native Arts and Cultures

This year, three Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF), National Artist Fellows have been named the inaugural Western Arts Alliance (WAA), Native Launchpad award recipients. Congratulations to Christopher Kau’i Morgan (2013 – NACF Dance Fellow), Allison Warden (2018 – NACF Music Fellow) and…

Native Arts for Social Change

Blog2018, Advocacy, Arts & Education, Community Engagement, Leadership, Social Change

NACF has a passion and talent for bringing exceptional artists together before diverse audiences to share their insightful work and inspire the spirit. In October, NACF organized three sessions with a total of seven Native artists and changemakers at two...

2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Dyani White Hawk

Blog2018, Apprentice, Artist, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Ojibwe, Quillwork, Sicangu Lakota, Visual Arts

Dyani White Hawk, a 2017 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) Mentor Artist, recently completed her joint art project (on right) with apprentice Jennie Kappenman (Red Lake Ojibwe). White Hawk worked with Kappenman throughout her NACF Mentor Artist Fellowship year,...

Kevin Pourier Wins Best of Show at Indian Market

Blog2018, Advocacy, Artist, Grantee, Lakota, Oglala Lakota, Regional Artist Fellowship

Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota), a 2014 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) Regional Artist Fellow, has been carving Buffalo horn on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for over 20 years. After 21 years of showing his work...

Out of State – A Documentary by Ciara Lacy

Blog2018, Community Engagement, Event, Film, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian

Ciara Leina`ala Lacy (Kanaka Maoli), 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) National Artist Fellow, presented her directorial debut, Out of State, to an audience of over 100 people in Portland, Oregon, on September 26. The film explores complex questions of cultural and...

Join Us For First Friday With Richard D. York

Blog2018, Artist, Cherokee, Community Engagement, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver

"Embracing tradition helps me to embrace change. I intend each artwork I make to operate as a provocative invitation for the viewer to go past their mind’s normal conceptions, while still maintaining their own relationship to mindfulness and looking. I...

Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle

Blog2018, Cherokee, Community Engagement, Native Identity, Sicangu Lakota, Theater

This past spring the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) supported three panel discussions with three Native female playwrights - all presenting their work on Oregon’s top stages - including Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota), DeLanna Studi (Cherokee) and Mary Kathryn...

NACF Supports Work of Reclaiming Native Truth

Blog2018, Advocacy, Education, Social Change

At an international conference I attended this year, a Caucasian male speaker who has traveled the nation and world extensively, had this to say, “Go anyplace in the world and ask anybody about America; they’ll bring up names like Taylor...

Where the Sky & the Earth Meet: NACF Native Artist Panel Event at PNCA

Blog2018, Alaska Native, Community Engagement, Convening, Education, Event, National Artist Fellowship, Native American, Native Hawaiian

Join us for a panel discussion by Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian visual artists as they present their work addressing the complexities of contemporary Native life and Native identity.
Events are open to the public!

For Girls Becoming – an Arts Mentorship Program for Young Mvskoke Women

2016 Founders Fund, Blog2018, Artist, Community Engagement, Grantee, Program Support

For Girls Becoming was launched in June 2017 by Mvskoke poets Joy Harjo-Sapulpa (NACF Board Member) and Jennifer Elise Foerster as a response to the need for an organization to serve and advocate for Mvskoke girls and young women, as...

NACF Fellow Artists at the 2018 Santa Fe Indian Market

Blog2018, Community Engagement, Event, marke, Mentor Artist Fellowship, National Artist Fellowship, Regional Artist Fellowship

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s (NACF) Director of Programs, Francene Blythe, attended The Southwest Association for Indian Arts 97th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market earlier this month. She took the opportunity to meet and catch up with several of our current and past...

Join us for First Friday with Greg Archuleta

Blog2018, Artist, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver, Grand Ronde, Washington

What: You won’t want to miss this Native Artist Series event! For Vancouver’s September First Friday our featured guest is a contemporary and traditional artist, Greg Archuleta. Of Clackamas Chinook, Santiam Kalapuya, and Shasta heritage, he is an enrolled member of...

Studio Visit with Linda Infante Lyons

Blog2018, Alaska, Alaska Native, Contemporary, National Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts

From her Anchorage studio, visual artist and 2018 National Artist Fellow Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq) discussed the development of her work and its thematic elements with NACF Director of National Artist Fellowships, Reuben Roqueñi. Her work was recently featured at the...

NACF Fellows Participate in Standing Rock Exhibition

Blog2018, Artist, Contemporary, Mentor Artist Fellowship, National Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts

The Condor and the Eagle: Moving Forward After Standing Rock is a Native art exhibition currently on display at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition was inspired by benefactor and activist Elisabeth Jones who is a lifelong advocate for...

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