NATIVE ARTS
Animating Our Voices
Our events and projects create space for cultural arts and lifeways to catalyze cultural revitalization, community renewal, public education and healing. We provide opportunities for Native communities to animate our voices, engaging in intergenerational, traditionally grounded, immersion experiences such as carving and weaving workshops, internships, youth programs, media trainings, Indigenous agricultural science and art exhibits. These gatherings foster community connection and storytelling, traditional artistic expressions, Native science practices and diverse Indigenous worldviews through integrative practice.
Art by John Jairo Valencia, commissioned for our seed packets
Through our work in Native Arts, we:
Provide spaces and resources to produce, conserve and distribute art created by and for Native communities
Produce and distribute art works with Native voices & vision
Facilitate arts collaborations, training, and education with Native communities and individuals
Embody holistic Indigenous ways of being by integrating art into all our lifeways