Alaska Archives - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

Introducing the 2018 Mentor Artist Fellows

Blog2018, Alaska, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington

Join us in congratulating the eight accomplished Native artists, representing six states, named our 2018 Mentor Artist Fellows!

Kathleen Carlo Kendall

2018 Mentor Artist FellowshipAlaska, Alaska Native, Carving, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Traditional Arts

Kathleen Carlo Kendall is one of Alaska’s most prominent sculptors, imbuing significant and fascinating cultural metaphors in each piece.

Lily Hope

2018 Mentor Artist Fellowship2018, Alaska, Alaska Native, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Lily Hope is a weaver who brings in-depth ancient Indigenous knowledge and practice into her Chilkat weaving and teaches the tradition to perpetuate it for generations to come.

Weaving for Generations to Come

Blog2017, Alaska, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Visual Arts

2017 Mentor Artist Fellow Lani Hotch (Chilkat Indian Village) comes from a long lineage of weavers starting back with her great-great-grandmother. She began weaving with her grandmother and is using her opportunity as a Mentor Fellow to ensure that the tradition is passed on to younger generations.

Linda Infante Lyons

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Alaska, Alutiiq, Artist, National Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts

The work of visual artist Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq) is a quietly subversive act intended to achieve an element of decolonization.

Allison Akootchook Warden

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Alaska, Alaska Native, Artist, Inupiaq, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Performing Arts

Interdisciplinary hip-hop artist Allison Warden of Anchorage, Alaska engages her audience with stories of the Iñupiaq people, putting a contemporary spin on tradition.

Brian Adams

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Alaska, Alaska Native, Artist, Inupiaq, National Artist Fellowship, Photography, Visual Arts

Brian Adams captures vivid portraits of contemporary life in the North, using photography to document the beauty and complexity of Indigenous life.

How the Mentor Artist Fellowhip Builds Oregon’s Resilient Indigenous Community

Blog2017, Alaska, Arizona, California, Coquille, Klamath, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Miluk Coos, Minnesota, Modoc, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin

Last week the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation announced its open call for the for the second ever Mentor Artist Fellowship program. Established American Indian and Alaska Native artists with ten or more years of experience in the Traditional or...

Open Call for Regional Mentor Artist Fellows

Blog2017, Alaska, Arizona, California, For Artists, Grants, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Press Release, South Dakota, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, Washington, Wisconsin

Applications are requested from established American Indian and Alaska Native artists interested and qualified to mentor an apprentice of their choosing in Traditional or Contemporary Visual Arts. $30,000 will be awarded to artists chosen in the Pacific Northwest, Southern California,...

Announcing 2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship Awards

Blog2017, Alaska, Arizona, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, Washington

April 19, 2017 - Please join the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation staff, board and selection panelists in congratulating the following 12 artists who have been awarded a 2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship! Listed are the awardees in alphabetical order by...

Lani Hotch

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Alaska, Artist, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Textile Art, Traditional Arts

As an artist, Lani Hotch continually focuses her work and ambitions on the resurgence of traditional arts in her community.

Jackson Polys

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Alaska, Artist, Carving, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Tlingit, Visual Arts

Jackson opens opportunity for dialogue to reconsider the meanings and functions of traditional Northwest Coast art forms through his carved sculptures.

Nicholas Galanin

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Alaska, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Metalworking, Tlingit, Unangax̂, Visual Arts

Nicholas Galanin is an educator, lecturer, and multi-disciplinary artist with an exceptional skill in the metalsmithing and sculptural technique known as chasing and repoussé.

NACF’s New Mentor Fellowship Program – Apply Now!

Blog2016, Alaska, Arizona, California, For Artists, Grants, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Press Release, South Dakota, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, Washington, Wisconsin

NACF’s new Mentor Fellowship program will award accomplished American Indian and Alaska Native artists to mentor emerging artists in the Traditional Arts or Contemporary Visual Arts categories.

NACF Launching New Mentorship Program

Blog2016, Alaska, Arizona, California, For Artists, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, Washington

For thousands of years, master Native artists have dedicated time, resources, and support to the next generation, passing on the skills, arts practice, and cultural understanding needed to perpetuate visual and traditional arts and lifeways. Yet in today’s fast-paced and…

TJ Young, Sgwaayaans

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Alaska, Artist, Carving, Community Engagement, Grantee, Haida, National Artist Fellowship, Traditional Arts

TJ Young has garnered the respect of his community and elders by being named to the highly regarded role of “head carver”—an impressive accomplishment for a young artist.

A World Where Performance is Part of Life

Blog2015, Alaska, Arts & Education, California, Community Engagement, Dance, Minnesota, New York, Partnerships, Volunteer, Yup'ik

Yup’ik dancer and choreographer Emily Johnson galvanized four large urban centers in the country and her hometown of Homer, Alaska, with her multi-disciplinary project SHORE – one of NACF’s Community Inspiration Pilot projects. Story, volunteerism, performance and feasting engaged local communities who were willing to show up and be open to the possibilities.

Stephen Qacung Blanchett

2015 National Artist Fellowship2015, Alaska, Artist, Grantee, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Yup'ik

Stephen Blanchett’s musical mission is reflected in his work as a member of the band Pamyua, who are known for fusing traditional Yup’ik drum songs with contemporary sounds.

Presentation in Anchorage at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation on March 17.

Foundation Presentations in Alaska March 2015

Blog, NEWS RELEASE2015, About NACF, Alaska, For Artists, National Artist Fellowship

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 free outreach presentations in Fairbanks and Anchorage March 17-18. The...

Da-ka-xeen Mehner

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Alaska, Artist, Grantee, N'ishga, National Artist Fellowship, Native Identity, Tlingit, Visual Arts

Embedded in photography and self-portraiture the work of multimedia Installation Artist Da-ka-xeen Mehner includes sculptural elements, sound and video projections.

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