Check out this amazing opportunity – Applications due by February 15th!
Repost from @forgeprojectny
Forge Project, a Native-led arts and decolonial education initiative on the unceded homelands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok in Upstate New York, has announced its open call for applications for its 2023 funded fellowship program. Read below for more details! Or Apply HERE: bit.ly/3k6kH08
Forge Project (@forgeprojectny) is pleased to announce its open call for applications for its 2023 funded fellowship program for Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators.
Forge Project is seeking a 2023 cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures.
Two of these Fellowships will be awarded to members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in recognition of the peoples on whose homelands Forge Project is situated and to encourage site-specific and relational projects.
Each Forge Project Fellow will receive a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have full access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks.
2023 Fellows will have the opportunity to present their work to the local Forge Project audience on site as well as a wider international audience via social media.
Fellows will work one-on-one with Curator of Indigenous Programs & Community Engagement @sarahbiscarradilley (Northern Chumash) to develop public programming, to make connections and build contacts, and for mentorship or support during their stay.
Applicants must be registered members of federally or state-recognized tribes to apply for the 2023 Forge Project Fellowship. The Stockbridge Munsee Community Fellows will have the additional requirement of applying with a specific project that furthers the initiatives of the Cultural Services Division.
Applications are due Wednesday, February 15, 2023, by 11:59 PM EST. Visit their website to learn more and apply.
Fun fact:
October 26, 2022 – (Repost from K Art Facebook Page) K Art was proud to attend ICI’s Annual Fall Benefit and see G. Peter Jemison present the Independent Curators International (ICI) 2022 Leo Award to curator Candice Hopkins for her efforts in elevating the work of Indigenous artists.
Hopkins is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project, which “serves the social and cultural landscape of shared communities through a funded fellowship program for Indigenous culture workers, including those working in food and land justice, law and decolonial governance, and art.” She was also the senior curator of the 2019 and 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art and has cocurated many groundbreaking group exhibitions highlighting Indigenous artists, including, for ICI, “Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts.”
