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Melissa Henry

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Artist, Arts & Education, Film, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Navajo

Filmmaker Melissa Henry spent her childhood herding sheep, caring for livestock and playing in the forest. Today, she makes innovative Navajo-language films that appeal to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Brooke Swaney

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Artist, Blackfeet, Film, Grantee, Montana, National Artist Fellowship, Native Identity, Salish

Brooke Swaney has generated much enthusiasm in the indie film circuit for her film “Breathe Auralee” (2012).

Billy Luther

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Artist, California, Film, Grantee, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo, National Artist Fellowship, Native Identity, Navajo

Documentary filmmaker Billy Luther brings mindful and personal depictions of the complexity of reservation life to the screen, inspired by his Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo heritage.

Patrick Makuakāne

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Artist, Arts & Education, California, Dance, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian

Kumu hula Patrick Makuakāne illuminates the hidden complexity of traditional hula moves by choreographing exciting dance narratives for modern music.

Ron Paquin (Chippewa) was awarded a 2013 NACF Artist Fellowship for Traditional Arts.

Ronald Paquin

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Artist, Carving, Chippewa, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Michigan, National Artist Fellowship, Traditional Arts

Ronald Paquin is an artist whose mastery of a number of Indigenous art practices is well-known. Michigan State University has awarded him a Master Artist Grant nine times and the Ziibiwing Cultural Center of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe commissioned him to create over 70 items for the collection. His work has been recognized by two different artist awards from the First People’s Fund.

Teri Rofkar

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Alaska, Artist, Basketry, Community Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Textile Art, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Teri Rofkar is an internationally renowned artist of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, known for exquisite weaving.

Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) was awarded a 2013 NACF Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts.

Rose Simpson

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Artist, Community Engagement, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, New Mexico, Santa Clara Pueblo, Visual Arts

Rose Simpson is a ceramic and mixed-media artist whose work broadly encompasses sculpture and installation, drawing, aerosol painting, writing, music and dance.

Kapulani Landgraf

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Advocacy, Artist, Grantee, Hawaii, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian, Visual Arts

Kapulani Landgraf is an exhibiting artist whose work is grounded in black and white photography and spans a variety of mediums, from 2-dimensional representations to sculpture and installation.

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.

Joan Naviyuk Kane

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Alaska, Artist, Grantee, Inupiaq, Literature, National Artist Fellowship, Poetry

Poet Joan Naviyuk Kane brings her deeply internalized knowledge of place into her works. One reviewer states that hers is the “eye which sees itself as part of the landscape” as opposed to an eye that tries to name and in the process, interpret, what it sees.

Bobby Bullet

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Artist, Chippewa, Community Engagement, Grantee, Michigan, Music, National Artist Fellowship

Bobby Bullet St. Germaine is a celebrated writer and performer who has been a part of the music business for over 50 years. He continues to draw from a life and career filled with uncertainty, joy, love and difficult decisions to create memorable lyrics and heartfelt music.

Brent Michael Davids

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Artist, Arts & Education, Grantee, Minnesota, Mohican, Music, National Artist Fellowship

As a composer, Brent Michael Davids creates, publishes, records, and performs his own original music for the concert stage, orchestra, chorus, opera, ballet, modern dance, theater and film.

Cyril Pahinui

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Hawaii, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian

Building from a renowned lineage of musicians with unique guitar tunings, including his father Gabby Pahinui, slack-key master Cyril Pahinui has developed a distinctive style that is instantly recognizable and imparts an intimate picture of his island home. His soulful baritone voice brings a deeply personal emotion to everything he sings.

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Alaska, Artist, Film, Grantee, Inupiaq, National Artist Fellowship, New York

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean is a film director and screenwriter creating works in international filmmaking arenas. His films are set in his homeland, shot on location in Barrow, Alaska, starring Iñupiat people. They are among the first feature films produced in the Iñupiaq language.

Christopher Kaui Morgan (Native Hawaiian) was awarded a 2013 NACF Artist Fellowship in Dance.

Christopher K. Morgan

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Artist, Dance, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian, Washington D.C.

Christopher Kaui Morgan is a choreographer and dancer whose work stems from a belief in the urgency of live performance in an increasingly isolating, commercial, and digital world.

Rosy Simas

2013 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2013, Artist, Community Engagement, Dance, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Seneca

Rosy Simas has been choreographing and teaching dance for more than 18 years. Her work incorporates her extensive dance training in contemporary and traditional forms of Native American dance, and includes ballet, Butoh and improvisational techniques.

Alan Michelson

2012 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2012, Artist, Grantee, Mohawk, National Artist Fellowship, New York, Visual Arts

Alan Michelson lives and works in New York City. Through his conceptual work, he develops his pieces employing various mediums. “My understanding of place and history is shaped and conditioned by Haudenosaunee concepts and perspectives. The forms that I invent are often based on Haudenosaunee cultural models like wampum belts, blended with media or materials from the dominant culture such as video or glass,” said Michelson. “My work is grounded in place and informed by history, and therefore research is an integral part of my practice.”

Bennie Klain

2012 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2012, Artist, Film, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Navajo, Texas

Bennie Klain is a filmmaker creating documentary films that bridge Native concerns and social commentary, highlight universal themes and cultural inequities, and bring voice to Native communities on their own terms.

Raiatea Helm

2012 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2012, Artist, Arts & Education, Grantee, Hawaii, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian

Raiatea Helm is a much-heralded musician with a singular and captivating voice, who possesses focused artistic vision and an innate and rhythmic giftedness.

Rulan Tangen

2012 National Artist Fellowship, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM2012, Artist, Community Engagement, Dance, Grantee, Mentoring, National Artist Fellowship, New Mexico

Rulan Tangen is the director, choreographer and featured dancer at Dancing Earth Contemporary Dance Ensemble.

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