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2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Royce Manuel

Blog2018, Apprentice, art, Artist, Basketry, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Textile Art, Weaving

2017 NACF Mentor Artist Fellow Royce Manuel (Auk-Mierl Aw-Thum) is a renowned artist in southern Arizona who has spent years researching and documenting desert plant weavings and desert life-ways. Manuel is revitalizing an endangered art form - fiber weaving from harvested desert...

2017 Mentor Fellow Apprentices on Retreat

2018 Founders Fund, Blog2018, Apprentice, Artist, Artist Residency, Arts & Education, For Artists, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Native Identity

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) 2017 Mentor Artist Fellow apprentices culminated their 12-month program this past summer at a week-long residency led by Ka’ila Farrell-Smith and Signal Fire. The residency offered the first group of NACF apprentices the opportunity...

2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Dyani White Hawk

Blog2018, Apprentice, Artist, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Ojibwe, Quillwork, Sicangu Lakota, Visual Arts

Dyani White Hawk, a 2017 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) Mentor Artist, recently completed her joint art project (on right) with apprentice Jennie Kappenman (Red Lake Ojibwe). White Hawk worked with Kappenman throughout her NACF Mentor Artist Fellowship year,...

2018 Mentor Artist Fellows Start Their Mentorship Year

Blog2018, Apprentice, art, Artist, Contemporary, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s Mentor Artist Fellowship recognizes established American Indian and Alaska Native artists of ten years or more who wish to engage in a one-year mentorship of an American Indian or Alaska Native emerging artist apprentice geared towards...

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2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Royce Manuel

2017 Mentor Fellow Apprentices on Retreat

2017 Mentor Fellow Update: Dyani White Hawk

2018 Mentor Artist Fellows Start Their Mentorship Year