National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists
2008 Recipients
M. Cochise Anderson
Chickasaw/Mississippi Choctaw
Minneapolis, MN
M. Cochise Anderson will collaborate with Native Arts Circle in Minneapolis, MN to lead 4 weekly, 2.5 hour long workshops in performance/storytelling/creative writing/theater training to Native American performance artists and social service administrators who will then use this experience on the K-12 curriculum level.
$4,300
Ed Edmo
Shoshone-Bannock
Portland, OR
Ed Edmo and the Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program at Lewis and Clark
College in Portland, OR, will collaborate to offer storytelling workshops to 10 students. The workshop series will culminate in a performance for public, family and friends where the students will demonstrate at least one traditional legend and explain how it relates to the work they do and how they will incorporate storytelling into their everyday work.
$5,000
Clarissa Hudson
Tlingit
Pagosa Springs, CO
Clarissa Hudson will teach an intermediate Chilkat weaving class at the Silver
Cloud Art Center in Haines, Alaska, for 3-12 Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian (maybe one Navajo) female weavers who have had any prior weaving experience in
Chilkat or Ravenstail. There is encouragement for weavers to begin weaving their first robe during this class.
$5,000
Yakama Nation Language Program
Toppenish, WA
Martha and Christopher Paul (Yakama) will teach ancient Native dogbane cordage making workshop with 3-4 Yakama families. The process will be recorded for future curriculum development and use by the Yakama Nation
Language Program.
$5,000
National Native Creative Development Program
2008 Recipients
Marcus Amerman
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Choctaw
Santa Fe, NM
Marcus Amerman will create a website to market his artwork.
$2,000
Shawn Brigman
Spokane
Spokane, WA
Shawn Brigman will harvest, construct and display an indigenous piece of architecture unique to the Spokane Tribe (tule mat tipi) and enroll in a photography course to document tipi in seasonal environments.
$2,000
Raven Chacon
Diné
Albuquerque, NM
This funding will go toward three projects Raven Chacon is currently working on —(1) electronic components for ‘living installation’; (2) make custom microphone for piano recording; (3) professional mastering service and production costs for a vinyl or CD release.
$1,840
Victor A. Charlo
Bitterroot Salish
Dixon, MT
Victor Charlo will promote his new work titled Put Sey: Poems of Victor A. Charlo by conducting a year long regional book tour at venues like schools, libraries and bookstores.
$2,000
Kelly Church
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
Hopkins, MI
Kelly Church will create three traditional baskets that are becoming lost forms —a baby basket, a fishing creel and a wedding basket with 5 apprentices for each basket and document the process.
$2,000
Wade Fernandez, Sr.
Menominee
Keshena, WI
Wade Fernandez will create a CD recording of his music.
$2,000
Erin Genia
Sisseton-Wahpeton
Olympia, WA
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Erin Genia will purchase specialized equipment and tools for silversmithing and lapidary work.
$2,000
Pauline Hillaire
Lummi
Bellingham, WA
Pauline Hillaire will create a CD recording of Lummi stories passed down to her from her parents.
$2,000
Anna Hoover
Aleut
Seattle, WA
Anna Hoover will attend the Remesladersu International Festival of Indigenous
Art in Khabarovsk, Russia, where she will exhibit her photographs.
$2,000
Clarissa Hudson
Tlingit
Pagosa Springs, CO
Clarissa Hudson will purchase 1,000 yards of Chilkat yarn to make a Chilkat robe.
$2,000
Janice Jackson
Tlingit/Tsimshian/Haida
Ketchikan, AK
Janice Jackson will purchase scarce materials and designs from Nathan Jackson to make traditional and contemporary Tlingit dance regalia and clothing items.
$2,000
Sonya Oberly
Nez Perce
Lewiston, ID
Sonya Oberly will develop a website and directing reel to promote her work.
$2,000
Sandra Osawa
Makah
Seattle, WA
Sandra Osawa will move 30 years of her work as a Native American producer from older formats into DVD format.
$2,000
Michael Peters
Squaxin Island
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Olympia, WA
Michael Peters will create an original screenprint, produce minimum of 300 5x7 greeting cards with the screenprint design, develop a marketing plan for the greeting cards and participate in a minimum of four art sales opportunities.
$1,800
Shaun Peterson
Puyallup
Fife, WA
Shaun Peterson will purchase upgrades to computer software programs to improve collaboration with design teams for public installations, create professional quality books of his work, manage his portfolio of work and better collaborate with fabricators and engineers for metal and glass work.
$1,667
Joseph Seymour, Jr.
Squaxin Island
Shelton, WA
Joseph Seymour will create five canoe paddles out of kiln-formed cast glass.
$2,000
Cedar Sherbert
Santa Ysabel Iipay
Los Angeles, CA
Cedar Sherbert will research geographic locales for a screenplay and film.
$2,000
Ronald Washington
Northern Arapaho
Riverton, WY
Ronald Washington will purchase a book binding machine to make his Arapaho language children’s books more professional and presentable.
$2,000
Melanie Yazzie
Diné
Erie, CO
Melanie Yazzie will travel to New Zealand to install an art exhibition in
Christchurch and teach a printmaking workshop.
$2,000
Rona Yellow Robe-Walsh
Chippewa-Cree
Tacoma, WA
Rona Yellow Robe-Walsh will use this grant to pay for the graphic design for the cover of her CD and regalia to wear in the cover photograph and future performances.
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$2,000
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