Awarded Grants

This project will retain Oneida arts of silver, pottery, and baskets and create new artists for the future by utilizing master artists from the Native community to teach apprentices and youth their art forms. This will increase their level of artistic professionalism and create community support for current artists.

Native Giving Distribution

With our Growing Dakota Artists series, we aim to increase our community's exposure to different forms of Native arts, utilize the interest generated by our sampler series to shape our future arts programming, and increase class attendance in the media most favored by our community, retaining knowledge for future generations.

Native Giving Distribution

The Project will retain the art of sewing for the Community through increasing awareness of the art of sewing through classes which will allow Community Members to create their own textiles or clothing. This project will be documented for future generations.

This project will create a new program that harnesses the knowledge of established community artists and shares it with community youth through a carefully designed program curriculum that helps retain cultural knowledge and practice while increasing the number of new caretakers of the art knowledge and practice.

This project will teach artists the professional business skills needed to complete in today's marketplace from customer service and networking to the digital divide. These classes will be a place for safe dialog and artists will be encouraged to continue their craft, teach the next generation, and celebrated.

This project will increase the capacity of the entire Cheyenne River arts community through building a stronger network of support organizations and artists. This project will also leverage current programs through creating a resource center to have consistent support for artists and arts organization.

This project will increase the number of Hopi who have skills of endangered arts: Hopi Textiles, Basket Weaving and Moccasin Making. It will utilize traditional mentorship by Elders to youth; create a model for Indigenous arts programs; and leverage future support for a year-long arts and language immersion school.

Our project will provide leadership and support, investing time in our Tribal Youth to develop our youths creative & spiritual minds to strengthen our community's future. To retain the Yavapai-Apache Nations heritage and material culture as well as educate and reinvigorate the youth to their history and culture.