s'gWigWi?altxW House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center
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s'gWigWi?altxW House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center
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House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center vision: Indigenous arts and cultures are thriving and powerful, shaping a global nexus of artists and cultural guardians who reaffirm visual sovereignty. Our mission is to advance Indigenous arts and cultures.
I will reach out to Rob Firing at Transatlantic. Let's do this!
January 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The college also has several Native focused programs and I think hosting you and you talking about your latest book and your work would be very interesting to students but also to the community members of the Tribes nearby.
January 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
That would be amazing! We have events all the time. We should chat. We even have funds.
January 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
January 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thank you so much! We are in Olympia, Washington, US at the South end of the Salish Sea on Squaxin Island Tribe territory. We are so lucky to work in this amazing space.
January 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Our Longhouse was the first of its kind built on a US College campus and opened its doors September, 1995. @daanis.ca may we be added to Indigiskeet? Gunalcheesh!
January 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
www.evergreen.edu/houseofwelcome Our home website. Email: Longhouse@evergreen.edu
s'gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome
www.evergreen.edu
January 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Annually we offer individual artist grants to Native American artists living in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Grants are up to $5,000 for individual artists and up to $10,000 for mentorship/apprentice work. We also support artist workshops in community for the same states.
January 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We work with colleges and universities in our SIAM program which means honored elder and for our purposes also means Supporting Indigenous Arts Mastery. We work in the upper Midwest, West, Northwest, Alaska and Southwest and British Columbia to support Indigenous visual arts work.
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We also have the carving studio complex Pay3q'ali-a place to carve. Both studios are also home to 3-D visual arts classes taught at our small college. Courses include Salish, Northern carving, in the fiber studio, which include fiber weaving as well as basketry.
January 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We offer arts workshops on our Indigenous Arts Campus, which includes Paimārire, our fiber arts studio. Designed with Pacific Northwest Native artists and Lyonel Grant, Ngāti Pikiao and Te Arawa.
January 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM