Region 2 Arts Council awards $5,000 Fellowships through Anishinaabe Arts Initiative

BEMIDJI - Region 2 Arts Council's Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Council recently awarded $5,000 fellowships to Ningozis White and Martina Isham.

The AAI Fellowship is made possible by the McKnight Foundation and aims to assist the region's most talented enrolled tribal members and descendants in their artwork by awarding financial support to fund creative time, purchase of arts materials, supplies and equipment or arts research and experiences, a release said.

Photographer Ningozis White of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is a graduate of Bemidji State University with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and is highly motivated when it comes to good physical and mental health, the release said.

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