First Peoples Fund Invites Applications for Artist in Business Leadership Program
The First Peoples Fund's Artist in Business Leadership Program is designed to help entrepreneurial Native American artists develop their marketing and business skills and build self-sustaining, arts-based businesses.
This one-year, self-directed program provides a working capital grant of up to $5,000 to support work on a marketing plan/strategy or business goal as defined by the artist applicant. Additional program benefits include technical assistance, a professional network of peers, and travel expenses to FPF's professional development workshops. The fellowship places emphasis on new works to stimulate creativity and a renewal of energy in Native art expression.
To be eligible, an artist must have five or more years of experience in marketing his or her art at Indian art markets and galleries, and have wholesale experience. Applicants must have chosen art as a means to obtain economic self-sufficiency for themselves and their family, and must have worked to establish themselves as independent, credible artists with viable community-based businesses.
Applicants must be members of a Northern Great Plains tribe located in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Nebraska, the Eastern Plateau region of Idaho, Oregon, or Washingtonr a tribe from the Great Lakes region of Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsinr a tribe belonging to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard statesr or a Hawaiian or Alaska Native. Affiliated Canadian First Nations artists are also eligible.
Artists are selected for the program based on demonstrated artistic talent, evidence of entrepreneurial experience and potential, and adherence to the values of the First Peoples Fund.
For complete program information and application procedures, visit the FPF Web site.
