To support “Curating the North 2025,” a three-day gathering organized by the Alaska Native Museum Sovereignty group, taking place in Anchorage, Alaska and scheduled April 1-3, 2025. Prepared in collaboration with the Arctic Culture Lab, the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska Native Heritage Center the event features artist workshops, panel discussions, think tanks, and a pop-up exhibition focused on land-based curation. Alaska Native scholars, artists, and museum professionals, Indigenous curators from other northern communities, as well as Indigenous curators from other northern communities, such as Canada, Greenland, and Sápmi are also invited to share their knowledge. Information about the project will be shared on the Arctic Culture Lab’s webpage and may be featured in First American Art Magazine, with plans to document the event through photographs and a brief overview.

To support “2025 NACF Convening” program consisting of a series of one-day, in-person gatherings across locations including Santa Fe, Phoenix, Juneau, and Seattle, as well as at the NACF’s own Center for Native Arts and Cultures in Portland, Oregon, from March 1 through December 31, 2025. These events engage Native artists, leaders, and scholars in dialogues about contemporary Native arts and cultures, focusing on advancing visibility, fostering professional development, and creating spaces for cultural exchange. Emphasizing relationship-building and knowledge exchange, these gatherings aim to deepen connections and expand the influence of Native arts across the field. This in-person event is also recorded; the videos shared on NACF’s social media platforms and through our email newsletters. A quarterly publication, available in digital and printed edition, will detail and celebrate the convenings.

“Latinx Muralism Exchange: El Paso, TX and Los Angeles, CA” is a three-day convening hosted by the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), coinciding with the annual Borderland Jam Public Graffiti and Art Show (May 23–25, 2025). The program brings together artists, academics, and community members to explore muralism’s legacy in Latinx art, the intersections of cultural identity and public art, and murals as platforms for social activism. A publication and digital catalogue will document the convening, ensuring accessibility to wider audiences through EPMA’s website and associated platforms.

To support “Belonging: Native American Art in Settler Contexts,” a multi-vocal interdisciplinary gathering developed to analyze the concept of “Belonging” through Indigenous creative practices and knowledge systems and explore its points to agency, animacy, and distinctive epistemological systems. Hosted at the University of Oklahoma and scheduled March 6-7, 2025, the event comprises a variety of formats, such as readings, roundtables, panels, and community discussions, to encourage both formal and informal conversation, creative practice, and foster dialogue on Native American art, ancestral belongings, and relationality within and across communities. Open to the public, the program will be live streamed and recorded, the proceedings will be published.

“MARS: A Reawakening” explores the legacy of Movimiento Artístico del Río Salado (MARS), a Phoenix-based collective championing Chicano and Native American artists through exhibitions, educational initiatives, and cultural events. The symposium, hosted at the Phoenix Art Museum on September 20, 2025, features keynote speakers and panels examining MARS’s role as an alternative art space, its contributions to community-building, and its impact on the Southwest arts ecosystem. Symposium will be live-streamed and recorded for a larger audience, with future dissemination through a monograph, YouTube videos, podcasts, and an archival repository at the Lemon Art Research Library.