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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!

Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives

2016 Founders Fund, Blog2017, Advocacy, Event, Grantee, New York, Program Support, Visual Arts

New York City, New York - Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives, focuses on contemporary indigenous artist perspectives and practices, grounded in innovative projects. This colloquium series, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has consisted of three...

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.

Wayne “Minogiizhig” Valliere

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Carving, Community Engagement, Grantee, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Traditional Arts, Wisconsin

Wayne Valliere has devoted four decades of his life to the preservation of his people’s arts, language, and culture.

Laura Wong-Whitebear

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Basketry, Colville, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Sinixt, Traditional Arts, Washington

Laura Wong-Whitebear is dedicated to utilizing and preserving traditional basket-weaving knowledge and has chosen an apprentice with the same commitment.

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.

Cara Romero

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Chemehuevi, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, New Mexico, Photography, Visual Arts

Cara Romero is a visual storyteller whose dynamic photographs challenge preconceived notions of Native art, culture, and peoples.

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.

Dyani White Hawk

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Beadwork, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Minnesota, Sicangu Lakota, Visual Arts

Dyani White Hawk has been blessed with opportunities to learn beadwork, porcupine quillwork, sewing, and traditional art forms that are vital for her to share.

Delbert “Smutcoom” Miller

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Carving, Chehalis, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Skokomish, Traditional Arts, Washington

Miller wants those he teaches to also pass on this traditional knowledge and in doing so, this generation may become the advisors and leaders of the Skokomish and Chehalis people in the future.

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.

Shirod Younker

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Carving, Coos, Coquille, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Oregon, Traditional Arts

Shirod Younker is an experienced culture bearer having researched his tribe’s lost historic and traditional knowledge, and now teaching it to the next generation.

Delina White

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Beadwork, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Minnesota, Ojibwe, Textile Art, Traditional Arts

Delina White is devoted to Anishinaabe Inendamowin (thought/ways of thinking) and keeps her Anishinaabe woodland designs and history alive through her artwork.

TahNibaa Naataanii

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Dine, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Navajo, New Mexico, Textile Art, Traditional Arts

Navajo weaving has been passed for generations in TahNibaa Naataanii’s family along with songs or stories that come along with each woven piece.

Kelli Jo Ford

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Artist, Cherokee, Grantee, Literature, National Artist Fellowship, Virginia

Kelli Jo Ford, who graduated Magna Cum Laude with an MFA in English and writing from George Mason University, is known for engaging her readers with her story telling, character portrayals and flair for the dramatic.

Mark Keali`i Ho`omalu

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Artist, California, Grantee, Music, National Artist Fellowship, Native Hawaiian

Mark Keali`i Ho`omalu creates groundbreaking dance and chant driven by his love and passion for hula.

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.

Susan Power

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Artist, Grantee, Literature, Minnesota, National Artist Fellowship, Yanktonai Dakota

Award-winning author Susan Power has published three books and her short fiction stories and essays are widely anthologized and reprinted in many textbooks.

Mateo Romero

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Artist, Cochiti Pueblo, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Native Identity, New Mexico, Visual Arts

Mateo Romero’s paintings are rooted in both his culture and the history of the paintings that preceded his, right down to their mark making, surface, texture and use of color.

Erica Tremblay

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Advocacy, Artist, Film, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, New York, Seneca-Cayuga

Filmmaker Erica Tremblay selects highly sensitive and difficult social subjects for her films, yet manages to incorporate an inspirational element into each difficult story.

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