|  Potlatch
Fund - Expanding Philanthropy in Northwest Indian
Country
One of the innovative programs run by Potlatch Fund
is to award grants to northwest Native artists and
Native nonprofits. This program, which has been made
possible through funding from the Ford Foundation,
is a way to recognize excellence, encourage emerging
artists and support community-based activities that
promote Native art throughout the Northwest. This
year 31 applications were received for the Native
Arts grant round requesting a total of $156,052.
The
Potlatch Fund Board of Directors approved awards totaling
$37,500 and ranging from $500 to $5,000. The staff
wishes to thank the Ford Foundation for their continued
support of this important program and the volunteers
who spent considerable time reviewing and discussing
the applications.
White
Swan Arts & Recreation Committee
(White Swan, WA…$5000): Funds
to hire three native elders: a moccasin maker, a ribbon
shirt seamstress, and a wing dress seamstress to present
training at KLUB meetings. Each boy / girl will be
able to assemble their own outfit and gift them to
guests at an honoring celebration.
Nez
Perce Arts Council
(Lapwai, ID…$3500): Funds
to invite Marcus Amerman to the reservation to show
ten, intermediate to expert, beaders the pictorial
style of beading over a four day workshop.
Nooksack
Indian Tribe
(Deming, WA…$3500): Funds for project support
for at-risk tribal youth, under adult supervision,
to design and paint Nooksack tribal specific figures
on existing office and community buildings while teaching
our young people alternatives to language as forms
of communication.
Red
Lodge Transition Services
(Portland, OR…$3500): Funding
for two professional art gallery showings in Oregon
comprising of 70 to 100 pieces of original prison
art work.
Rocky
Boy Native Arts & Crafts Co-op
(Box Elder, Montana…$3500): Funds
to establish a web-site to sell their arts & crafts
and beadwork items.
Tierra
Madre Fund (Seattle,
WA…$3500): Funds
to support a three-day program for traditional and
contemporary artists will include on-site works in
progress and panel discussions led by well know artists
and teachers (see narrative).
Coup
Marks Cooperative
(Pablo, MT…$1500): Funding
to design and build a sculpture for the Confederated
Salish, Kootenai & Pen d'Oreille Tribes, that
will honor the history and sacrifice the tribe gave
in World War II.
Elizabeth
A. Woody
(Portland, OR…$1250): Funds
to purchase a laptop computer and printer to compile
/ complete 3 separate books in manuscript ready form.
Jack
Cagey
(Bellingham, WA…$1250): Funds
to preserve Coast Salish song and dance story telling.
Joseph
Seymour, Jr.
(Shelton, WA…$1250): Funds
for materials for the "2008 Glass Paddle Project":
Wood, Rubber, Wax, Plaster, Glass, etc.
Keith
Egawa
(Seattle,
WA…$1250): Funds
to create a novella-length work, exploring the grim
and volatile circumstances confronting the Tohono
O'odham people of Southern Arizona.
Michelle
Jefferson (Bellingham,
WA…$1250): Funding
to purchase required equipment and software.
Rich
Demain
(Bremerton, WA…$1250): Funds
to support and train Suquamish Tribal youth to conduct
oral life histories with Suquamish Tribal Elders.
The oral life histories will be documented together
with current and historical photographs.
Ameliatte
L. Hardy
(Pocatello, ID…$500):Funds
to promote and support Northwest Native cultures through
individual expression and to foster economic development
for their projects.
Chuck
Williams
(The Dalles, OR…$500): Funds
to produce a 2010 calendar entitled The Undammed River
People, which will feature portraits of Native Americans
of the Lower Columbia Basin (with short biographies).
The
Raven Chronicles (Seattle,
WA…$500): Funding
for workshops, creative and performing arts programs
by notable Pacific Northwest Native writers/storytellers.
October 17 - 19, 2008 at the Quileute Resort (LaPush,
WA).
Trevino
Brings Plenty (Portland,
OR…$500): Funds will be used to purchase new
equipment: computer, interface, camera, etc. Funds
will also be used to pay actors and pre / post production
costs, DVD authoring and duplication.
Potlatch Fund is a Native-led community foundation,
which provides technical assistance and grant funds
to Native organizations throughout Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana. Potlatch Fund works to build bridges
between the larger philanthropic community and Native
foundations. For additional information, please call
206.624.6076
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