The document discusses an artist initiative that provides funding for community engagement projects led by native artists. It notes that native cultures are fluid and explores tradition as well as adaptation. It then introduces the interdisciplinary arts collective Postcommodity, which creates public art and installations to engage issues around globalization and colonialism. Upcoming projects this winter will involve communities across borders in New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico.

1. Artist Self-Empowerment + Support

2. NEW Signature Initiative
10 year initiative
• Artist driven community
engagement projects
• Addressing community issues
• Engaging community on
multiple platforms, providing
spaces for dialogue and
exploration.
• Pilot projects begin in 2014.
Awards up to $150K

3. Native artists have always worked outside of the norms of artist
support systems.
Tradition is a vital piece of cultural continuums, no doubt. But culture, too, is
fluid and exploration, adaptation, borrowing and necessity is as embedded
within Native “arts” practice as a millennium of practical convention.
Native peoples are not trapped in amber.

4. Postcommodity
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts
collective comprised of Nathan Young, Raven
Chacon, Cristobal Martinez and Kade Twist.
Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared
Indigenous lens and voice to engage the
assaultive manifestations of the global market
and its supporting institutions, public
perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions
that comprise the ever-expanding,
multinational, multiracial and multiethnic
colonizing force that is defining the 21st
Century through ever increasing velocities and
complex forms of violence.

6. This winter, the multi-disciplinary
art collective Postcommodity will
work in collaboration with
communities in New Mexico,
Arizona and Northern Mexico, to
create public art and multi-media
installations - communities divided
and united by international
borders of the U.S., Mexico and
Native Nations.

7. Repellent Fence - Installation
Forthcoming in October 2015

9. Game Remains: Golden Horseshoe (Guelph) – 2013 Game
Remains combines video game technology with community
collaboration to create a site-specific, generative, music performance
and installation environment. Utilizing a ceremonial conceptual
framework, collaborators engage a significant community issue and co-
determine a set of values and protocols to guide the logic and
interactivity of the game in a manner that best articulates a shared
vision of community agency.

10. Do You Remember When? (Sydney Bieannale) – 2012

11. Kealoha (Native Hawaiian)
MIT Graduate, Physics
Poet
As an internationally acclaimed poet and
storyteller, he has performed throughout
the world -- from the White House to the
`Iolani Palace, from Brazil to
Switzerland. He is the first poet in
Hawai`i's history to perform at a
governor's inauguration, and in 2010 he
was selected as a master artist for a
National Endowment for the Arts
program.
Kealoha was featured on HBO’s Brave New
Voices series presented by Russel Simmons

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