December 5, 2025 | Repost from Forge Project FB
Forge Project is pleased to announce its open call for applications for its 2026 funded fellowship program for Indigenous cultural workers, organizers, scholars, artists, researchers, and educators!
Forge Project is seeking a 2026 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 the six fellowships are awarded to enrolled tribal members, First- and Second-Line Descendants 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 receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks.
Fellows have the opportunity to work one-on-one with Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality Sarah Biscara Dilley [Northern Chumash]) at sarah@forgeproject.com and Public and Relational Programs Coordinator Monica Sekaquaptewa (Diné & Hopi) to develop public programming, to make connections and build contacts, and for support or mentorship during their stay.
Applicants must be an enrolled member, citizen, or descendant with verification from the enrollment office of a state or federally recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native corporation, or of Native Hawaiian ancestry, a Canadian First Nations (status or non-status), Métis or Inuit to apply for the 2026 Forge Project Fellowship.
The application is now live. Please submit all materials by Sunday, February 15, 2026, by 11:59 PM ET. Learn more and apply at forgeproject.com/fellowship or click the #LinkInBio.
