They have been featured at the New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama (NYC), Portland and Seattle Art Museums, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, the 2019 Portland Biennial, the Risk/Reward Festival, PICA's TBA Festival, Melbourne’s Yirramboi Festival, and more. Melissa has been published in the Alaska Humanities FORUM Magazine, First American Art Magazine, Inuit Art Quarterly, and the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Learning Lab.Īnthony Hudson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, perhaps best known as Portland, Oregon’s premier drag clown, Carla Rossi – an immortal trickster whose attempts at realness almost always result in fantastic failure. She is a founding member of Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas (fish head soup) Comics, a new media collective focusing on Indigenous collaboration and representation in science-fiction narratives. She has curated and juried art exhibitions with the Anchorage Museum, Alaska Pacific University, University Alaska Anchorage, The Coe Center, the International Folk Art Museum, the Fairbanks Art Association, and the Arctic Arts Summit. Melissa has completed residencies in Sweden, Italy, Canada, and throughout Alaska. Melissa centers conversation as her art praxis, searching for deeper understanding through works of exchange and reciprocity. She is an Ahtna and Paiute person, an artist, a curator, and an Auntie. Learn more at Melissa Shaginoff, is part of the Udzisyu (caribou) and Cui Ui Ticutta (fish-eater) clans from Nay'dini'aa Na Kayax (Chickaloon Village, Alaska). She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Bellingham, Washington on the ancestral homelands of her tribe. Priest’s nonfiction has appeared in High Country News, YES! Magazine, Seattle Met, and elsewhere. She is also in the final stages of preparing a new poetry manuscript.
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Priest is a National Geographic Explorer and is currently at work on a series of short essays about the history of unjust criminalization of tribal fishers. Her most recent book, Northwest Know-How: Beaches, includes a collection of Priest’s poems, retellings of tribal legends, and descriptions of 29 of her most beloved beaches in Washington and Oregon. Her second collection, Sublime Subliminal, was published as the finalist for the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her debut poetry collection, Patriarchy Blues, was published by MoonPath Press and received an American Book Award.
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She is the recipient of an Allied Arts Foundation Professional Poets Award and fellowships from Nia Tero, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Vadon Foundation.
She currently serves as Washington State Poet Laureate (2021-2023) and has been named as the University of Washington Libraries Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing Fellow for 2022. Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. Please stay tuned for updates about applications for the 2023 cohort of Pacific Northwest Arts Fellowship. It is clearer now more than ever that art and culture are fundamentally tied to the well-being of Indigenous Peoples, which in turn ensures the health of the lands we steward. Artists continue finding innovative new ways of connecting us. Even as Native populations were being hit especially hard by the pandemic, Indigenous makers were rallying to provide solace and sustenance during isolation. Nia Tero was proud to launch this Fellowship in Fall of 2020, when millions of cultural workers were experiencing significant income loss due to Covid-19. Engagement sessions will be designed collaboratively with the group and held virtually. The seven selected fellows will each receive an unrestricted award of $10,000 and will participate in a series of cohort engagement sessions.
Nia Tero is proud to provide Indigenous artists working in the Northwest of Turtle Island this opportunity for professional and personal support as part of their growing network of fellows that spans the globe. Nia Tero’s Pacific Northwest (PNW) Art Fellowship brings together creatives working in many visual disciplines, from diverse international Indigenous affiliations, across stages of their artistic development.
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