Artist Archives - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) was awarded a 2014 NACF Artist Fellowship in Traditional Arts.

Remembering Shan Goshorn (2014 NACF Artist Fellow)

Blog2018, Artist, Cherokee, Weaving

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) mourns the passing of Cherokee weaver Shan Goshorn (2014 NACF Artist Fellowship), after a long battle with cancer. A treasured member of the NACF family of artists, she was known for her sensitivity...

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...

2018 National Artist Fellows Convening

Blog2018, About NACF, Alaska Native, Artist, Community Engagement, Convening, Donations, Event, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Oregon, Support for Native Arts and Cultures

Over the course of three days, September 26-28, the eighteen 2018 National Artist Fellows were convened in Portland, Oregon, for sharing and learning from one another, interfacing with the public and discussing ways to strengthen their work and the Native arts...

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,...

Kevin Pourier Wins Best of Show at Indian Market

Blog2018, Advocacy, Artist, Grantee, Lakota, Oglala Lakota, Regional Artist Fellowship

Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota), a 2014 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) Regional Artist Fellow, has been carving Buffalo horn on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for over 20 years. After 21 years of showing his work...

Join Us For First Friday With Richard D. York

Blog2018, Artist, Cherokee, Community Engagement, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver

"Embracing tradition helps me to embrace change. I intend each artwork I make to operate as a provocative invitation for the viewer to go past their mind’s normal conceptions, while still maintaining their own relationship to mindfulness and looking. I...

For Girls Becoming – an Arts Mentorship Program for Young Mvskoke Women

2016 Founders Fund, Blog2018, Artist, Community Engagement, Grantee, Program Support

For Girls Becoming was launched in June 2017 by Mvskoke poets Joy Harjo-Sapulpa (NACF Board Member) and Jennifer Elise Foerster as a response to the need for an organization to serve and advocate for Mvskoke girls and young women, as...

Join us for First Friday with Greg Archuleta

Blog2018, Artist, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver, Grand Ronde, Washington

What: You won’t want to miss this Native Artist Series event! For Vancouver’s September First Friday our featured guest is a contemporary and traditional artist, Greg Archuleta. Of Clackamas Chinook, Santiam Kalapuya, and Shasta heritage, he is an enrolled member of...

NACF Fellows Participate in Standing Rock Exhibition

Blog2018, Artist, Contemporary, Mentor Artist Fellowship, National Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts

The Condor and the Eagle: Moving Forward After Standing Rock is a Native art exhibition currently on display at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition was inspired by benefactor and activist Elisabeth Jones who is a lifelong advocate for...

Join Us for First Friday with Roben White

Blog2018, art, Artist, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver, Washington

What: You won’t want to miss this Native Artist Series event! For Vancouver’s First Friday our featured guest is visual artist Roben White (Cheyenne/Lakota, enrolled Oglala, Pine Ridge). When: Friday, August 3, 2018 from 5:00-8:00pm Who: Artist and local activist...

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...

Weaving a New Narrative – the Interwoven Radiance Exhibition is Celebrated

2017 Founders Fund, Blog2018, Alaska Native, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Event, exhibit, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Portland, Textile Art, Weaving

On June 28, the Portland Art Museum (PAM) hosted a closing celebration for Interwoven Radiance, part of the Center for Contemporary Native Art. The exhibition, organized by 2018 NACF Mentor Artist Fellow, Lily Hope (Tlingit), featured weavers of the Northwest...

Join Us for First Friday with Robert Harju

Blog2018, Artist, Carving, Cowlitz, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver, Portland

What: You won’t want to miss this Native Artist Series event! For Vancouver’s First Friday artwalk our featured guest is master carver Robert Harju (Cowlitz). When: Friday, July 6th from 5:00-8:00pm Renowned for his skill and dedication as a traditional...

Join Us for First Friday in Vancouver, WA

Blog2018, Artist, Event, First Fridays in Vancouver

Friday, June 1, 2018 5:00-8:00pm NACF Headquarters, The Academy 400 E. Evergreen Blvd. #101B, Vancouver, WA Vancouver First Friday Event June 2018What: You won’t want to miss this Native Artist Series event! For Vancouver's First Friday artwalk our featured guest...

Cultural Exchange in Croatia – An Interview with TahNibaa Naataanii

Blog2018, Artist, Dine, International, Navajo, Weaving

In mid-December of 2017 we received an email requesting contact information for one of our Mentor Artist Fellows. This is not unusual, but the sender was the Hrvatsko-Američko Društvo[1] (Croatian-American Society) headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, invited 2017 Mentor Artist Fellow TahNibaa...

Identity in Our Fashion: Four Native Women Artists on Creativity and Cultural Knowledge

Blog2018, Artist, Chemehuevi, Community Engagement, Event, Haida, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Native American, Navajo, Ojibwe

Wearable art and culture have always been at the center of Native American life, from ceremonial robes to traditional dress to contemporary looks. These garments express identities, honor family legacies, and increasingly earn praise for their artistic mastery and modern...

Join us for a discussion about Native Perspectives on Arts, Culture and Justice

Blog2018, Artist, Community Engagement, Cultural Preservation, Event, Native Identity

Programmed by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and We Can Listen, seven Native American artists share their perspectives through their art. The first half of the program will focus on each artist's story through their work. In the second...

Exploring Life’s Offerings through Journeys in Creativity

Blog2018, Alaska Native, American Indian, Artist, Arts & Education, Cultural Preservation, Environmental Stewardship, Mentoring, Oregon, Partnerships, Program Support, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, Washington, Youth Engagement

Capturing the attention of high school students in the digital era can be a challenge, but Shirod Younker (Coquille), Journeys in Creativity program director and a 2017 NACF Mentor Artist Fellow, has been successfully attracting emerging artists for over a decade....

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!

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