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NACF
NACF’s 2017 Mentor and Apprentice Artists Gather in Portland, Oregon
Join NACF May 9 for Artist Talks – Live!
2016 Annual Report Released
Upholding Our Values through Arts and Cultures
NACF Fellows Honored as United States Artists Fellows
New Mexico Musicians & NACF Board members Stand with Standing Rock
2015 Highlights
The Profound and Numerous Benefits of Arts and Cultures
I believe there is a benefit of arts and cultures that has not been written about nor studied enough in more intentional ways, although it has gained value in arts and philanthropic circles in the past few years. This is the value of arts and culture as a social change tool. The head of a social change organization and one of the national proponents of social change and the arts had this to say: “The single most powerful social change tool in the world is arts and creative expression. There is nothing that transcends barriers across language, economics, cultures, and place in a way that engages people and community like arts and cultures can. Nothing (emphasis) is that powerful.”
The 1960’s had a great impact on me
In my lifetime, I have not seen this level of racial discrimination and hatred in our country since the 1960’s and early 1970’s. As a very young girl, too innocent to understand what was going on, but intuitive enough to know that something very wrong was happening, I remember seeing on national television these horrific images of police dogs and fire hoses turned on the demonstrators in Birmingham, the violence at the Pettus Bridge in Selma, and the burning neighborhoods of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. These images from Alabama and California flashed on TV screens across our nation and stayed with me for a long time.
Trusting Your Instincts
Foundation Presentations in Alaska March 2015
Foundation Presentations in Oklahoma March 2015
Aloha from the President
Creating Maximum Creative Potential
The Cultural Survival of Native Nations
Report on First Native Arts and Cultures National Convening
Vancouver, Wash., Oct. 16 – The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) has released a report on the “Strengthening the Bones” convening held in the fall of 2011 that brought together over 100 individuals representing a cross section of arts services organizations, cultural centers, museums, artists and artist collectives, foundation and government funding agencies to learn and build around the community of Native art.