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Join NACF May 9 for Artist Talks – Live!

Please join us LIVE from the very first NACF Mentor Artist Fellowship Training in Portland, Oregon! Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is kicking off our two-day convening and training for…
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2016 Annual Report Released

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation has released its 2016 Annual Report as a digital download, and in it we offer a snapshot of a very busy but rewarding year.…
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2015 Highlights

The following covers highlights from seven Fellows, the Community Inspiration Projects, Sponsorships and California Bridge Initiative. To see and learn more about any of NACF’s Artist Fellows or Projects please…
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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.”

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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.

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Medicine Rock Child (2011) by NACF Program Associate Wendy Red Star (Crow).

Trusting Your Instincts

As a guest lecturer selected by students to participate in the Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series at the California Institute of the Arts, NACF Program Associate Wendy Red Star…
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Presentation in Anchorage at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation on March 17.

Foundation Presentations in Alaska March 2015

Alaska Native Artists Events March 17-18 (VANCOUVER, Wash.) – Alaska Native, American Indian and Native Hawaiian artists are invited to connect with the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) at…
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Aloha from the President

Time has been on my mind lately, and I’ve been wondering about the ways in which it played out in the lives of our ancestors. Their physical and spiritual worlds…
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Reuben Roqueñi (Yaqui/Mexican), the first Program Director of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

Creating Maximum Creative Potential

Over the last four years, I have had the honor to serve as the first Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. In building a support system for…
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A 2012 report on Strengthening the Bones, the first national gathering of Native arts and cultures stakeholders convened by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in 2011.

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.

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