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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!

Patrick William Kruse

2018 Mentor Artist Fellowship2018, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Minnesota, Red Cliff Band of Superior Chippewa, Traditional Arts

Patrick William Kruse continues to be one of few artists who creates birch bark art. He pays homage to his ancestors by maintaining use of ancient patterns for his designs.

Jim Denomie

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Annishinabe, Artist, Minnesota, National Artist Fellowship, Ojibwe, Visual Arts

Painter and multimedia artist Jim Denomie (Ojibwe) portrays historical, political and social issues with sly humor and an eye-popping palette.

Heid E. Erdrich

2018 National Artist Fellowship2018, Artist, Literature, Minnesota, National Artist Fellowship

Writer, storyteller, poet and multidisciplinary artist Heid E. Erdrich reaches audiences through her voice as a woman from both Ojibwe and American cultures.

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...

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.

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.

Choreographer and dancer Rosy Simas (Seneca) was awarded a 2013 NACF Artist Fellowship in Dance.

Native Dance celebrated in the Twin Cities

Blog2017, Artist Residency, Community Engagement, Dance, Event, For Artists, Minnesota

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is proud to share an update on Oyate Okodakiciyapi , a performance and full schedule of community engagement activities, led by Artist Fellows Rosy Simas, Christopher K. Morgan, and Rulan Tangen. For those in…

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…

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.

A World Where Performance is Part of Life

Blog2015, Alaska, Arts & Education, California, Community Engagement, Dance, Minnesota, New York, Partnerships, Volunteer, Yup'ik

Yup’ik dancer and choreographer Emily Johnson galvanized four large urban centers in the country and her hometown of Homer, Alaska, with her multi-disciplinary project SHORE – one of NACF’s Community Inspiration Pilot projects. Story, volunteerism, performance and feasting engaged local communities who were willing to show up and be open to the possibilities.

Dyani White Hawk

2015 Regional Artist Fellowship2015, Artist, Grantee, Minnesota, Regional Artist Fellowship, Sicangu Lakota, Visual Arts

Dyani White Hawk’s dynamic multimedia paintings come from an inward inspiration of reflections and contemplations that intrigue, engage and draw viewers into the wonder of her work.

Jim Denomie

2015 Regional Artist Fellowship2015, Annishinabe, Artist, Grantee, Lac Courte Oreilles, Minnesota, Regional Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts

Art curators, students, professors are studying Jim Denomie’s work and more and more are publicizing their learning of the intricacy, satire of his paintings.

Pat Kruse

2015 Regional Artist Fellowship2015, Artist, Basketry, Community Engagement, Grantee, Mentoring, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Minnesota, Red Cliff Band of Superior Chippewa, Regional Artist Fellowship, Traditional Arts

Pat Kruse is one of few actively practicing traditional birch bark art who is learning from and teaching about his museum research in order to revive knowledge of traditional Ojibwe birch bark designs.

Maggie Thompson

2015 Regional Artist Fellowship2015, Artist, Arts & Healing, Fond du Lac Band, Grantee, Minnesota, Regional Artist Fellowship, Textile Art, Visual Arts

Maggie Thompson’s fiber art is relevant as the work draws upon our human emotions and is the core for the narratives that can be found in her textile designs.

Frank Big Bear

2015 National Artist Fellowship2015, Artist, Grantee, Minnesota, National Artist Fellowship, Ojibwe, Visual Arts

Frank Big Bear first gained artist recognition for his colored pencil drawings, but recently made a radical shift to collage and painting, and in the process has garnered new praise for his work.

Catch this Rising Star

Blog2015, Beadwork, Minnesota, Ojibwe, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts

Delina White, 2014 Regional Artist Fellow for the Upper Plains, is going to be busy this fall in five upcoming exhibitions throughout Minnesota. She’s presenting historical to contemporary women’s dress regalia through display and lectures along with meet-the-artist receptions; catch her event if you can. The event is called, “The Great Lakes Native Woodland Skirts” Project. “The project is giving me the opportunity to do what I have always wanted to do – to make beadwork and clothing that focuses on the historical significance of materials that I love and the beautiful way Native people used those materials to adorn themselves to create a culture identifiable as belonging to the woodlands of the Great Lakes region,” says Delina, member of Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

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