Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Announces 2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship Awards

For six years, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NARF) has awarded National Artist Fellowships to Native artisans in a number of disciplines, traditional and contemporary in communities all around Native America, including Alaska and Hawaii. Part of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowships has always had a community component and this year they have reached an important goal with a pilot project.

On April 19, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation announced their first Mentor Artist Fellowship Awards to 12 artists in three regions of the United States: the Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Upper Midwest. The awardees reside in Alaska, Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. Beginning in July, each artist will train and mentor an emerging Native artist apprentice for one year and are required to produce a joint art project at the completion of the Fellowship period.

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