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Northwest Indian College used funds from the 2007 Native Arts Grant Round

Native Arts Grant History

2010 Grants

Twelve grantees in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are receiving a total of $35,000 with funding from

The WK Kellogg Foundation
Supporters, like you, of our 2009 Gala

Angel Sobotta
Lapwai, ID $1,700

Funds will support the reintroduction of the Welcome and Swan Dancers to the Nez Perce Community. It will involve dance instruction, regalia design and construction and language instruction.

Danica Parkin
Deer Park, WA $2,500

Seeking funding support to complete and publish a bilingual children's book. The book is based on a traditional berry picking and counting song, and depicts ten important food and medicine berries of Salish people of the Inland Northwest.

Darrell W. Charles, Jr.
Port Angeles, WA $4050

Edward W. Charles
Kingston, WA $5,000

This project is to design and construct a casket that will be made from Western Red Cedar. It will be given to the Port Gamble Tribe to be used by Tribal members as a viewing casket for departed family members that are going to be cremated after the funeral.

Jake Rae
Seattle, WA $2,500

Funds will be used to upgrade to a more current software system to allow him to design more efficiently and expand the scope of his work.

Leanne Campbell
Plummer, ID $2,500

This grant request is for the purpose of purchasing a Mac Book Pro, the software, protection plan, and to provide wages for herself to build and maintain a website.

Nez Perce Arts Council
Lapwai, ID $3,000

This grant was requested to support tribal artist's that will be contracted to do once a month cultural arts enrichment workshops or projects at each of the tribal communities of Lapwai, Kamiah and Orofino, and Idaho.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Covington, WA $5,000

Funds will assist the (NNANA) in holding an annual gathering of weavers teaching weavers at Kay Nee Ta High Desert Resort in Warm Springs, Oregon.

Peg Deam
Suquamish, WA $1,250

The purpose of these funds will be to aquire a teacher in the fiber arts to work with nettle fibers so traditional cedar bark clothing can truly be authentic. Suquamish cedar bark clothing is her passion but incomplete because nettle twine is not used to weave the bark together.

Perri McDaniel
Grand Ronde, OR $3,500

Funds will be used to create a catalog of Northwest Native Artists and their work and to purchase samples of these artists work.

Rena Priest
Bellingham, WA $2,800

Funds will be used to purchase a letterpress so that she can utilize her skills in fine-press publishing to print Native art, literature, and oral histories.

Southwestern Oregon Tribal Basket Guild
Eugene, OR $1,200

Funds will be used to support the First Annual Conference of the Southern Oregon Tribal Basketry Guild and the development of a DVD compilation of weaver's knowledge.

2009 Grants

Twenty-seven grantees in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are receiving a total of $40,000 with funding from

The Boeing Company
The WK Kellogg Foundation (challenge grant)
Supporters, like you, of our 2008 Gala

Delbert Miller
Skokomish Nation WA, $4,250

Funds to purchase tools, materials and equipment to make cultural and spiritual implements, to enhance my skills as an artist and to share the knowledge, skills and resources with children and adults as a means for education, cultural preservation, etc.

Kalispel Tribe of Indians
Usk WA, $4,250

Funds for general support of the Kalispel Ambassadors' Performing Arts and language Revitalization Initiative through September 2010.

Quileute Tribal School
La Push WA, $4,250

Funds to purchase tools for Quileute Tribal School students and community members to facilitate learning about traditional NW Coast Native art styles and carving practices. Materials and work space will be provided by the Tribal School and Council.

Nooksack Indian Tribe
Deming WA, $2,750

Funds to provide art materials for their at risk youth to provide positive direction. Native youth become artists, and in the process, re-identify their cultural heritage that has gone astray.

Kaila Rose Farrell-Smith
Eugene OR, $2,500

Funding to participate in two large art expositions. 15 pieces at The New York Fine Art Expo and the Santa Fe Indian Market. Funds will offset booth fees, printing & framing, advertisements, and shipping.

Blackhorse Pride
Helena MT, $2,000

FFunds to support their work to preserve and promote the art of traditional storytelling as a way for their Native youth to reconnect with their heritage.

Matika Wilbur
Seattle WA, $2,000

Funds to purchase a Canon Digital SLR Camera in support of her projects entitled 1) Save the Indian and Kill the Man, 2) I-human and 3) We Are One People

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham WA, $2,000

Funds to support a three-day Weavers Teaching Weavers Conference plus Native Arts Sale Day to be held April 21 -24, 2010.

One Sky tchnk'wasq'it Arts Council
Plummer ID, $2,000

Funds for a laptop, printer, software and website development funds for their newly formed tchnk'wasq't Art Council so that they can promote their Tribe's artists and artwork via a website and also coordinate our Council's work.

Shaun Peterson
Fife WA, $2,000

Funds to begin the process of making paddles Natives can afford. Possible to grow into a Native company where capital will allow for the creation of other items.

Mark Charles
Port Angeles WA, $1,000

Funding to purchase a shed to keep the artist's band saw and other carving equipment in. Also to build a little awning in front of the shed to work under.

Anthony Callaway
Seattle WA, $750