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NACF celebrates the rich fabric of our cultural tr

NACF celebrates the rich fabric of our cultural traditions on this Indigenous People's Day. We join you today in honoring the diverse Indigenous cultures from the U.S. and all over the world.

#indigenous #indgenouspeoplesday #native #nativeamerican #americanindian #alaskanative, #nativehawaiian

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is pleased to announce the first cohort of the SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program awardees. Following a national open call for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists, applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals in multiple areas of expertise. Fifteen projects were selected to receive a $100,000 two-year award designed to support artists and community projects responding to social, environmental and economic justice issues to draw increased attention to Native communities.

The SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program provides multi-year services for Native artists and cultural practitioners to work on expansive projects for community engagement and presentation in collaboration with partner organizations.

Selected artist projects for SHIFT 2021:

Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation)
Rosy Simas (Seneca, Heron Clan)
Anna Hoover (Unangax̂ [Aleut])
Will Wilson (Citizen of the Navajo Nation)
Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
Emily Johnson (Yup’ik)
Moses Goods (Kānaka Maoli)
New Red Order (artist collective)
Postcommodity (artist collective)
Ciara Lacy (Kanaka Maoli)
Lily Hope (Tlingit)
Raiatea Helm (Kanaka Maoli)
Sabra Kauka (Native Hawaiian)
Raven Chacon (Diné) + Michael Begay (Tribal Member of the Diné Nation)
Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yup’ik)

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Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Jessica (Tyner) Mehta (Cher

Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Jessica (Tyner) Mehta (Cherokee Nation). Mehta is a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary author, artist, and storyteller. She is the recipient of a 2021GLEAN: Portland award and Regional Arts and Culture Council Make/Learn/Build award. She has two books releasing in 2021, including When We Talk of Stolen Sisters (Not a Pipe Publishing) and Antipodes (New Rivers Press). Mehta just completed the final year of her PhD program in Literature at the University of Exeter (England) and currently serves as a post-graduate researcher at the largest Victorian Centre in England. She is the first Native American to hold this position.

Mehta has received several writer-in-residencies around the world which were pivotal in supporting the creation of 15 published books. These posts include the Hosking Houses Trust with an appointment at The Shakespeare Birthplace (Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK), Paris Lit Up (Paris, France), the Women’s International Study Center (WISC) Acequia Madre House post (Santa Fe, NM), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE), and a Writer in the Schools (WITS) residency at Literary Arts (Portland, OR). Her doctoral research addresses the intersection of eating disorders and poetry.

For her LIFT project, Mehta will write a 50+ page book of poems, focusing on an array of themes, from Tsaligi stories from her childhood and forced removal, to a post-Trump world for Native people. She will also create a temporary installation, Chamber Coda, where she will crush the thousands of opioids found in her mother’s bedroom after her (fatal) overdose, filling a custom-blown hourglass to time down in three to five minutes, the amount of time it takes a person to die of an opioid overdose.
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#nativeart #NACFlift #cherokee #nativeamerican #americanindian #indigenous #indigenouswomen #nativeartist #nativewriter #writer #nativelit #literature @thischerokeerose

Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Keoneʻulaokamakauhi Keliʻ

Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Keoneʻulaokamakauhi Keliʻiokalani Teawenohoitalani Mākua (ʻŌiwi Hawaiʻi). Mākua apprenticed under Hawaiian tattoo master, Suluʻape Keone Nunes for nearly three decades who titled him, Keoneʻulaokamakauhi, as a Hawaiian tattooing specialist in 2016. He follows in the tradition of his sixth-generation great-grandfather, Hūnōhūnōhōlani. Through the years, he has contributed actively alongside Suluʻape Keone Nunes to bring the tradition of kākau uhi back to the people of Hawaiʻi.

Mākua has come to understand and activate rituals and ceremonies that connect the spiritual to the physical and separate the sacred from the mundane. The core purpose of his work today, as Kā Uhi, is to strengthen those he works on by connecting them to their ancestral lineage, lands, and works of old through a technique called kilo (skilled observation and application). The result is the placement of the most appropriate traditional markings on the body of those who seek his work.

Mākua’s project is focused on revitalizing the practice of Kakau Uhi, traditional Hawaiian tattooing, by using the traditional method of aʻo aku, aʻo mai. He will travel to four Hawaiian Islands to offer workshops in their respective Native communities. He will also visually document traditional designs and their meaning for those he works on, and develop a repository for his students.

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#nativeart #nativeartist #tatoo #nativehawaiian #hawaii #hawaiian #indigenous #indigenousart #NACFlift

Give More 24! is TODAY, and we are asking you to j

Give More 24! is TODAY, and we are asking you to join us in our efforts to make this an awesome day of giving! Make a DONATION BY 11:59PM on September 23 to support #Native artists.
#GiveMore24 #artfunding #donate

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It's not too late to support #Native artists today

It's not too late to support #Native artists today. NACF is participating in @GiveMore24 a one-day giving event. By giving together, and boosting donations through match dollars and nonprofit prizes, we are creating one incredible impact. You can help us with a donation today! If you're interested in learning more about featured quillwork artist Monica Jo Raphael (Anishinaabe-Sicangu Lakota), visit our website! #nativeart #nativeartist #artfunding #GiveMore24 #nativeamerican #americanindian #lakota #anishinaabe
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The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is participating in GiveMore24! Boundless One Day Giving Event TODAY! Today is the day when the Pacific NW region teams up for 24 hours of generosity. By giving together, and boosting donations through match dollars and nonprofit prizes, we are creating one incredible impact. You can help us as we race to raise $3.2 million in just 24 hours!

Make a donation and share the good news on social media. By inspiring others to give, we will build a day of Boundless potential. Learn more about NACF at the link in bio!
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#nativeart #nativeartist #nativeamerican #americanindian #nativehawaiian #alaskanative #artfunding #donate @givemore24

Meet NACF LIFT Artist Camas Logue (Klamath Modoc Y

Meet NACF LIFT Artist Camas Logue (Klamath Modoc Yahooskin). Logue lives in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in northwest Washington state, where he is apprenticing with his father-in-law, Swinomish elder and master carver Kevin Paul. Together they are working on community carving projects including pole carvings and show pieces. He has learned from elders in different tribal communities and traveled up and down the West Coast, studying different harvesting and weaving traditions. He has found that working with earth pigments and plant dyes affords him a closer relationship with his painting and allows him to interpret the landscape in new ways.

Logue’s multi-disciplinary work includes traditional weaving and carving, alongside his visual arts practice of oil painting, illustration, and printmaking. All of his work, whether oil, copperplate, woodblock, or illustration, is a reflection of his connection to place and his relationships with his ancestors. His labor-intensive techniques conjure the processes of geological time, eroding and revealing hidden layers within the work. Alongside his other practices, Logue also plays drums and guitar in the Indigenous queer band, Black Belt Eagle Scout, led by Katherine Paul, his wife.

For his LIFT project, Logue will create a series of paintings made with materials collected from his tribal homelands in southern Oregon. He will also create a display of pigments and dyes on archival paper, documenting their sources and their names in the Klamath language, addressing land loss and the dispossession of Klamath/Modoc people. The project will culminate with an exhibition of this new series of paintings at the Klamath administration building on his reservation.
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#nativeart #NACFlift #nativeamerican #americanindian #indigenous #nativeartist #klamath #modoc #yahooskin #artist @camaslogue

Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Carrie G. Lind (Cherokee Na

Meet NACF LIFT Awardee Carrie G. Lind (Cherokee Nation/Shawnee). Using clay she finds on her Cherokee allotment in White Oak, Oklahoma and hometown of Vinita, Lind hand processes the clay she uses to make her pottery. She then hand-coils, builds, and open-fires the work. Lind’s pots reflect her Cherokee and Shawnee ancestry and draws inspiration from the techniques of her esteemed teachers and mentors.

Through her creative practice, Lind contributes to reclaiming and reinvigorating her culture so that, as a people, they can leave their contemporary mark on tribal history. As a busy mother, she takes every available opportunity throughout her day to develop her pottery practice. She also teaches to reconnect other Native women to pottery, as a way to revitalize and protect traditional practices. She says, “I feel that this gift is not mine, but one I am obligated to share with my people.”

Lind’s LIFT project, 7 Directions / 7 Conversations / 7 Actions / 7 Pots, organizes seven conversations with spiritual leaders from tribes across Turtle Island, honoring each of the seven directions, filming them as part of a documentary. After responsibly sourcing local clay from ancestral tribal lands, she will memorialize each conversation in a new pot.
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#nativeart #NACFlift #pottery #nativeartist #cherokee #shawnee #oklahoma #nativeamerican #indigenous #indigenouswomen

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