Artist Calls + Residencies

 
 

Upcoming/Current Artist Calls at The Nave:

Artist Teaching Opportunities at The Nave:

  • Art Camp - 1 Week in Summer for youth ages 7-11. Contact us at info@ thenavespenard.com to apply for the 2025 program.

  • Fall Teen Workshop Program - 3 week (2 sessions/week) after-school program for youth ages 13-18. Contact us at info @ thenavespenard.com to submit your proposal for the 2025 program.

 

As we work in the spaces of community development and creative placemaking, we have opportunities to engage artists in a variety of projects. Our projects have varied from addressing COVID-19 related isolation for Cook Inlet Housing residents to creating opportunities to share arts education with youth in a community space. It’s exciting to collaborate with the community, and we look forward to future projects.

You can learn more about our practice and previous program collaborations below.

Art Exhibitions, Nave Sponsored Cultural Events, and Workshop Artist Submissions:

Please contact us at info @ thenavespenard.com to request submission forms for Events, Workshops, or S2S Spotlight Series (below).

Here are just a few of our ongoing Arts and Culture centered programs at The Nave:

Form + Design: Professional Art Workshops for Teens (Ages 14-18) - New in 2024!

Spenard 2nd Saturday Spotlight Series at The Nave:

In partnership with Spenard 2nd Saturday, The Nave sponsors curated events with the Spenard community, artists, and culture at center. Spenard 2nd Saturday celebrates neighborhood businesses, champions the creatives, and gives back to our community.

If you are a local Artist or Nonprofit Organization and would like to partner with The Nave on Spenard 2nd Saturday, please contact us at info @ thenavespenard.com.

ART CAMP at The Nave

Each summer in June, The Nave welcomes local children ages 7-11 to our spaces for one week to learn a diverse array of artmaking, dancing, storytelling, cultural appreciation, and creative skills taught by professional working artists and culture-bearers.

For more information about Art Camp at The Nave, contact us at info @ thenavespenard.com.

Dena’ina ełnene’ eł Ahtna nene’: This Is Dena’ina and Ahtna Place

Community Lessons on Language and Culture led by Melissa Shaginoff in 2024

Instructors: Donita Slawson, Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, and Kari Shaginoff

Melissa Shaginoff Artist Residency

Nave Artist in Residence (AiR) 2022

The Nave welcomed Melissa Shaginoff as our 2022 Artist in Residence.

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 is an Ahtna and Paiute person, an artist, a curator, and an Auntie.

During her residency, Melissa focused on topics of reparations, Indigenous language reclamation, cross-cultural understanding and competency, communal creation, and hide tanning. She was/is based out of her artist studio at The Nave and hosted events on-site.

Through small creative gatherings and workshops, Melissa explored topics with diverse audiences and stakeholders. She wove a network of community members around engagement topics to help foster Indigenous programming and themes at The Nave.

“Throughout my residency, I will investigate creative place-making processes. With frameworks of Indigenous stewardship and protocol, I will visit with my community discussing what cements, challenges, and changes our perceptions of place.”

The 2022 Artist in Residence at The Nave was supported in part by, Western States Arts Federation, and National Endowment for the Arts, and by The Kresge Foundation. We are grateful for the financial support of these organizations.

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2022 Melissa Shaginoff Artist Residency at The Nave

Artist in Residence RJ Fontaine - McHendry Artist in Residence RJ Fontaine - McHendry

A System of Strings

A System of Strings is a contemporary circus show created and performed by multidisciplinary American circus artists Ariel Schmidtke and Esther de Monteflores. A System of Strings fuses shadow puppetry and physical theater with traditional circus arts including trapeze, wire walking, and acrobatics.

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