Native poet Santee Frazier received a 2014 NACF Literature Fellowship in recognition of the fresh and innovative voice he brings to Native letters.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Eddie Chuculate
Writer Eddie Chuculate was honored with a 2014 NACF Artist Fellowship in Literature celebrating the gritty, deceptively simple stories he writes, portraying America, its dispossessed, its outlaws and its visionaries.
David Treuer
Novelist and nonfiction writer David Treuer writes with an eye to the untold and his work brings to life stories and perspectives not yet heard.
Melissa Henry
Filmmaker Melissa Henry spent her childhood herding sheep, caring for livestock and playing in the forest. Today, she makes innovative Navajo-language films that appeal to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
Brooke Swaney
Brooke Swaney has generated much enthusiasm in the indie film circuit for her film “Breathe Auralee” (2012).
Billy Luther
Documentary filmmaker Billy Luther brings mindful and personal depictions of the complexity of reservation life to the screen, inspired by his Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo heritage.
Patrick Makuakāne
Kumu hula Patrick Makuakāne illuminates the hidden complexity of traditional hula moves by choreographing exciting dance narratives for modern music.
Ronald Paquin
Ronald Paquin is an artist whose mastery of a number of Indigenous art practices is well-known. Michigan State University has awarded him a Master Artist Grant nine times and the Ziibiwing Cultural Center of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe commissioned him to create over 70 items for the collection. His work has been recognized by two different artist awards from the First People’s Fund.
Teri Rofkar
Teri Rofkar is an internationally renowned artist of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, known for exquisite weaving.
Rose Simpson
Rose Simpson is a ceramic and mixed-media artist whose work broadly encompasses sculpture and installation, drawing, aerosol painting, writing, music and dance.
Kapulani Landgraf
Kapulani Landgraf is an exhibiting artist whose work is grounded in black and white photography and spans a variety of mediums, from 2-dimensional representations to sculpture and installation.
Natalie Diaz
Poet Natalie Diaz has received the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and her debut book, When My Brother Was An Aztec, was published by the prestigious Copper Canyon Press.
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Poet Joan Naviyuk Kane brings her deeply internalized knowledge of place into her works. One reviewer states that hers is the “eye which sees itself as part of the landscape” as opposed to an eye that tries to name and in the process, interpret, what it sees.
Bobby Bullet
Bobby Bullet St. Germaine is a celebrated writer and performer who has been a part of the music business for over 50 years. He continues to draw from a life and career filled with uncertainty, joy, love and difficult decisions to create memorable lyrics and heartfelt music.
Brent Michael Davids
As a composer, Brent Michael Davids creates, publishes, records, and performs his own original music for the concert stage, orchestra, chorus, opera, ballet, modern dance, theater and film.
Cyril Pahinui
Building from a renowned lineage of musicians with unique guitar tunings, including his father Gabby Pahinui, slack-key master Cyril Pahinui has developed a distinctive style that is instantly recognizable and imparts an intimate picture of his island home. His soulful baritone voice brings a deeply personal emotion to everything he sings.
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is a film director and screenwriter creating works in international filmmaking arenas. His films are set in his homeland, shot on location in Barrow, Alaska, starring Iñupiat people. They are among the first feature films produced in the Iñupiaq language.
Christopher K. Morgan
Christopher Kaui Morgan is a choreographer and dancer whose work stems from a belief in the urgency of live performance in an increasingly isolating, commercial, and digital world.
Rosy Simas
Rosy Simas has been choreographing and teaching dance for more than 18 years. Her work incorporates her extensive dance training in contemporary and traditional forms of Native American dance, and includes ballet, Butoh and improvisational techniques.
Alan Michelson
Alan Michelson lives and works in New York City. Through his conceptual work, he develops his pieces employing various mediums.