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Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Golga Oscar (@quki92),

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Golga Oscar (@quki92), a self-taught artist who creates modern textiles that reflect his Yup’ik identity. He was born and raised in Kasigluk, Alaska, and graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts with an emphasis in Photography. He works with different mediums ranging from leather/skin sewing, to grass weaving and walrus ivory and wood carving. He is the only male seamstress in his extended family, carrying forward both his grandmother’s legacies. As a fluent Yup’ik speaker, Oscar is dedicated to keeping his culture and traditions alive and relevant by teaching the next generations about their language and art.

PROJECT:
For his 2023 LIFT Project, Oscar will create two forms of Yup’ik fancy parkas. The parkas will be constructed of fur and will include adornments made from calfskin, beads, reindeer fur, and yarn. The pieces will include geometric designs that signify his family symbology and regional structure, as well as unique color systems representing Yup’ik culture. Oscar’s goal for this project is to spread awareness and inspiration for the current and the younger generation to pursue their cultural identity. He will showcase the parkas in Native fashion shows across North America, and document and share his process on online platforms.

Support LIFT and projects like these at the Give!Guide link in our bio!

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All right, team! This TUESDAY, Nov. 21st, 2023, @

All right, team!

This TUESDAY, Nov. 21st, 2023, @ 6:30 PM (PST), we will be presenting an extraordinary collaboration with 2023 SHIFT Awardees Felix Furby (@goofmallow) and Anthony Hudson (@thecarlarossi), and everyone is invited! Yes, everyone, because it will be streamed LIVE from the Center for Native Arts and Cultures to our Facebook Page and YouTube Channel!

A livestream talk with Felix Fuby and Anthony Hudson, co-curators of My Father's Father's Sister: Our Ancestor Shimkhin.

In this presentation, Anthony and Felix offer their reflections on honoring Grand Ronde's transfeminine ancestor and how to make an exhibit about our own history as Indigenous people who are not from within the academic system.

Don't miss this first live-streamed production from NACF! Working with the artists and creating something together has been so much fun! Don't miss it!

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Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Alica “Sheyahshe”

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Alica “Sheyahshe” Mteuzi (@alicamteuzi), a filmmaker specializing in Afro-Indigenous futurisms, intricately weaves together the shared struggles and unique tensions within Black and Native communities. She is a member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and a descendant of both the Southern Cheyenne & Arapaho Peoples and formerly enslaved Indigenous Africans. Recently, she earned a BFA in Digital Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Originally hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area and now based in Albuquerque, NM, she is gearing up for the production of her next film, “BILA.”

For her LIFT Project, Mteuzi is writing and directing “BILA,” a sci-fi narrative set 50 years into the future. Venturing into a dystopian realm, the film channels alternative Black and Native histories onto a landscape shaped by the unintended consequences of advanced technology. Set against a futuristic canvas, the film harnesses Afro-Indigenous futurism’s unique principles and aesthetics, spotlighting the shared and distinct challenges these communities face. The film will be screened at tribal schools in New Mexico and submitted to film festivals nationwide.

Support LIFT and projects like these at the Give!Guide link in our bio!

#NACF #NACFlift #NativeArt #GiveGuide

Join us in congratulating the new awardees selecte

Join us in congratulating the new awardees selected for this year’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program!

Following a national open call for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists, eight 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.

Read more about the awardees and their projects at the link in our bio!

Maile Andrade (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)
Growing Thunder Collective - @growingthundercollective
Lani Hotch (Chilkat Indian Village)
Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz) - @thecarlarossi
& Felix Furby (Chinook Nation and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) - @goofmallow
Leilehua Lanzilotti (Kānaka Maoli) - @annezilotti
Christen H. Marquez (Kānaka Maoli) - @christenmarquez
Warren Montoya (Santa Ana Pueblo) - @warrmont
Marie Watt (Seneca Nation) - @marie_watt_studio

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The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NIC

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) (@nicwa1983) works to support the safety, health, and spiritual strength of American Indian and Alaska Native children along the broad continuum of their lives. They support tribes in building the capacity to prevent child abuse and neglect through positive systems change at the state, federal, and tribal levels. They are the most comprehensive source of information on American Indian and Alaska Native child welfare.

Please show your support to our relatives by donating to their Give!Guide linked in their bio and visit https://ow.ly/2u9F50Q6GyW to find ways you can continue to support NICWA’s work. @nicwa1983

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🧂 TODAY’S A BIG GIVE DAY 🧅

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Originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, 2023 NACF LIFT

Originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Kanani Miyamoto (@mamakanani) is currently living in Portland, Oregon where she practices art, teaches, and curates. She is an individual of mixed heritage and identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots, which is celebrated in her artwork. Miyamoto holds a Master of Fine Arts in Print Media from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practices from Portland State University. Kanani is now the Arts Coordinator at p:ear.

PROJECT:
Miyamoto’s LIFT Project, Weaving Angels, will be an immersive installation combining relief and screen prints with carved wood blocks, and locally harvested lauhala (leaf) woven into the prints. The prints will feature hula hand gestures of Kānaka Maoli living away from Hawai`i, as a symbol of community, cultural survival, and resistance against assimilation. Furthermore, the Project will reclaim the traditional practice of Hawaiian weaving, ulana, and bring it into Miyamoto’s contemporary art practice. She will share the work through artist talks, panel discussions, and weaving workshops, and will exhibit it in the Pacific Northwest and Hawai’i.

Support LIFT and projects like these at the Give!Guide link in our bio!

#NACF #NACFlift #NativeArt #GiveGuide

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Agalisiga “Chuj” M

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey, Cherokee (@agalisigamackeymusic ) guitarist/musician and singer/songwriter from the Cherokee Nation in Northeast Oklahoma. Mackey spent the early years of his life growing up on a creek bank in the small traditional Cherokee community of Kenwood, where his mother’s family settled after the forced removal of Cherokees from what is now North Carolina. Mackey then moved to Tahelquah, the Cherokee Nation capital, to become a language learner at the Cherokee Immersion Charter School. Mackey grew up participating in traditional ceremonies, ceremonial songs being the foundation of his voice which he carries with him as he creates more modern music.

PROJECT:

Mackey’s LIFT Project, ᏳᏩᏒᎢ ᎤᎾᏤᎵ (Yuwasv Unatseli), will be a country-folk album entirely written, sung, and performed in the Cherokee language. The album highlights the everyday life and experiences of Cherokee people in small traditional communities of Northeastern Oklahoma, an experience that is unique and not highlighted in mainstream media. Mackey will perform the album in a concert series held within the Cherokee Nation.

Support LIFT and projects like these at the Give!Guide link in our bio!

#NACF #NACFlift #NativeArt #GiveGuide

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Nanea Lum (@nanealum)

Meet 2023 NACF LIFT Awardee Nanea Lum (@nanealum) a Native Hawaiian artist based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is a graduate of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in the Masters of Fine Arts program of the Department of Art and Art History. Her areas of specialization include Hawaiian traditional cultural practice and the decolonization of contemporary art by applying methods of place-based learning and Indigenous knowledge. Lum works together with community organizations in Hawai’i producing projects and building networks connecting pathways of Native Hawaiian learning with ‘āina.

PROJECT:

Lum’s LIFT Project, Nu’uanu Streaming, is a public art project that will consist of a large-scale video projected onto the blacktop of one full block of Nuʻuanu Avenue in Urban Honolulu. The video will depict the flowing water of Nuʻuanu stream, and the ritual of burying canvases under rocks in the streambed. The project speaks directly to the issue of water diversion in Hawaiʻi’s post-contact society and asks the people of Honolulu to consider the deep history of sharing water in pre-contact Hawai’i. Lum will also share the work in a concurrent exhibition that will consist of a series of kapa pieces printed with imagery from the Nu’uanu Streaming project together with canvases that were created in the stream.

Support LIFT and projects like these at the Give!Guide link in our bio!

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