Arizona Archives - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

Melissa S. Cody

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Arizona, Artist, Dine, National Artist Fellowship, Navajo, Traditional Arts

Melissa S. Cody is a fourth generation Navajo weaver and textile artist who pushes the boundaries of a traditional art form with vivid colors and sharp geometric overlays.

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...

Royce Manuel

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Arizona, Artist, Auk-Mierl Aw-Thum, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Traditional Arts

Royce Manuel is revitalizing an endangered art form, fiber weaving from harvested desert plants, which has not been practiced or taught for nearly eighty years.

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…

“What’s up with the balloons?” The hopes of a community

Blog2015, Arizona, Community Engagement, Event, Mexico, Program Support, Social Change, Visual Arts

After eight years of creative visioning, planning and community engagement Postcommodity’s “Repellent Fence” (or Valla Repelente, in Spanish) goes airborne connecting the lands north and south of what is today the U.S./Mexico border. The installation, which launched October 10th, involved 26 scare-eye balloons tethered to the Sonoran Desert ground, that spanned a two-mile stretch and physically and metaphorically created a direct line of communication between communities and their many stakeholders. Repellent Fence is one of NACF’s Community Inspiration Program Pilot Projects.

Repellent Fence: Art that Engages Communities through Collaboration

Blog2015, Arizona, Community Engagement, Event, Mexico, Program Support, Social Change, Visual Arts

The interdisciplinary, Native arts collective, Postcommodity, will install the largest bi-national land art installation ever exhibited--in the southern border area. Taking place from October 9th through 12th, 2015, the installation entitled, “Repellent Fence” will span two-miles across the U.S./ México...

Layli Long Soldier

2015 National Artist Fellowship2015, Arizona, Artist, Community Engagement, Grantee, Literature, National Artist Fellowship, Oglala Lakota

Layli Long Soldier’s writing is keen, pensive and deliberate. She thoroughly examines the construction and deconstruction and meaning of her message in order to imbue each verse with the desired deliverance and power.

Hawaii Poet Laureate Kealoha (Native Hawaiian) was selected by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to lead a Community Inspiration Program demo pilot project.

Inspiring Communities Nationwide

Blog2015, About NACF, Arizona, Cherokee, Community Engagement, Hawaii, Mestizo, Native Hawaiian, Navajo, New Mexico, New York, Press Release, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Xicano, Yup'ik

With support from arts patrons, supporters of Native cultures and Native Nations, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is building a new initiative to bring culture makers and organizations together to address social issues and transform communities through the power...

Repellent Fence

COMMUNITY INSPIRATION PROGRAM2014, Arizona, Cherokee, Community Engagement, Event, Mestizo, Mexico, Navajo, Program Support, Social Change, Visual Arts, Xicano

Art collective Postcommodity is completing three projects with the publics of the Tohono O’odham, U.S. and Mexico nations exploring experiences along the U.S./Mexico border, including the Tohono O’odham tribal boundaries which pre-date the political border that currently separates communities.

Natalie Diaz

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Arizona, Artist, Community Engagement, Grantee, Literature, Mojave, National Artist Fellowship, Pima, Poetry

Poet Natalie Diaz has received the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and her debut book, When My Brother Was An Aztec, was published by the prestigious Copper Canyon Press.

Sherwin Bitsui

2012 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2012, Arizona, Artist, Grantee, Literature, National Artist Fellowship, Navajo, Poetry

Sherwin Bitsui is a poet of exceptional depth whose visceral work is richly steeped in surrealistic imagery – the high desert, sage and piñon, black-eyed doves, the bricks and gasoline of the city – these sensuously dark psychic descriptions all inhabit his haunting verses.

Diné be’ iiná, Inc. (The Navajo Lifeway)

2011 MOBILIZING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS2011, American Indian, Arizona, Community Engagement, Cultural Preservation, Dine, Environmental Stewardship, Native Organization, Navajo, New Mexico, Program Support

Diné be’ iiná, Inc. (The Navajo Lifeway) works in support of Diné producers and weavers, assisting sheep, goat, and fiber producers in the Navajo Nation with technical and educational information for sustaining economic self-sufficiency.

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