Native Arts and Culture: Resilience, Reclamation, and Relevance

FAIN: GA-271861-20

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Inc. (Vancouver, WA 98660-3331)
T. Lulani Arquette (Project Director: January 2020 to July 2023)

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Inc. (NACF) requests a $30,000 Chairman’s grant to support a one-and-a-half day Native Arts and Cultures convening. The convening will be a first-of-its-kind gathering of leading Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (NAANNH) artists, curators, archivists, preservationists, historians, organizational and tribal community leaders to discuss best practices and common challenges in creating, sharing, curating, researching, and resourcing NAANNH arts and cultural heritage. The goal of the convening is to: 1 - provide a platform for learning about NAANNH arts, cultures, and humanities; 2 - promote greater collaboration and consistency between federal agencies who work with NAANNH communities; and 3 - promote greater equity through a better understanding of the relevant issues that affect and influence NAANNH communities specially as it pertains to education, preservation, public programming, and research around NAANNH arts, history, language and culture.