Citizen Fellow: Art as Archive and Memory

Citizen Fellow: Art as Archive and Memory offers a sampling of the past fifteen years of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellows work and perspectives. This exhibition features artists who have inspired and centralized cultural consciousness and the impact of the NACF into their practice. They are of various cultural backgrounds whose creative possibilities have used NACF funding to produce works and dive into their practice. NACF has watched these artists and their transformative power validate how we view each other and our world.

The group exhibition presents work by past NACF Fellows working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, and site-specific installation. The exhibition highlights the impacts these artists have had on the field and their contributions to culture. This potent survey takes creative Native thought and practice as its point of departure and considers art and leadership as a catalyst for community engagement.

The exhibition offers an intersection of creative leadership and cultural perspectives which form fluidity both conceptually and across many different mediums, and highlights the impact that NACF has facilitated in the field of contemporary Indigenous art.

“Citizen Fellow looks to preserving moments in time, this Foundation has been at the forefront of championing Native artists for almost twenty years and has been honored to support them in the perpetuation of their practices.”
― NACF Vice President of Programs and organizing curator, Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo)