4 New York City Native American Artists Receive Fellowships in the Visual and Media Arts
$6,000 Awarded in the Third Cycle from the Urban Artist Initiative/NYC
(New York, NY – March 3, 2010) The Urban Artist Initiative/NYC (UAI/NYC), a consortium effort to strengthen the infrastructure and support for artists of color in New York City, announced the 34 New York artists who received UAI/NYC Fellowships this year. With this third grants cycle of the Initiative, 4 Native American artists in four disciplines have received direct support from this program.
The UAI/NYC consortium includes Amerinda, Inc., the Asian American Arts Alliance, Harlem Arts Alliance, the Latino Artists Initiative sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, working in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts, the project’s general sponsor.
Director of AMERINDA Inc, UAI Consortium membe, Diane Fraher said, “It is with great pleasure that we facilitate the award of artists fellowships in acknowledging and recognizing the merit of contemporary Native American arts in New York City. We congratulate the winners and thank all the talented artists who applied.”
Visual/ Interdisciplinary Arts
Yatika Starr Fields
Jason Lujan
Media Arts
Muriel Miguel
Vickie Ramirez
