INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to help improve Indigenous wellbeing through art-making, community building, and equitable creative opportunities for personal and professional growth. We achieve this mission through organizing radically inclusive, low-barrier arts opportunities for creatives at every stage of their careers. Opportunities include exhibitions, temporary public art installations, arts and ecological knowledge workshops, creative residencies, mini-grants, and other community-led projects. In all our work, we center the voices of women, Two Spirit and young people. We build power in our networks through trusted engagement methods, including mentoring youths and community curators to lead projects, and creating multiple means of participation for our diverse constituents to contribute. Throughout our programs, we pay community members equitably, and, with mentorship and guidance, help build their portfolios to increase capacity for future opportunities. Since our start, we have worked across multiple sectors with 50+ partners to support 400+ regional Indigenous artists through over $2million worth of opportunities.
About This Cause
yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective is an urban, Indigenous, women-led arts nonprofit dedicated to fostering a more equitable, inclusive, and imaginative future in the arts. We design robust, community-driven programs that focus on arts, ecology, and Indigenous values of abundance, inclusion, and care, with the aim of enhancing the health and well-being of Indigenous communities. Since our founding in 2017, our arts nonprofit has organized countless programs that uplifted over 400 Indigenous creatives with partners across the Salish Sea. Now after a two year search, we have finally secured a permanent home for Indigenous arts and culture in Rainier Beach. The undeveloped parcel holds more than 500 trees, bisects Mapes Creek, and is located near public transit in a diverse multigenerational neighborhood. Through artmaking and ecological education, we are creating a welcoming community hub where intertribal Indigenous artists can connect with each other, and the earth. We see ourselves as a small seed in the broader land rematriation movement, and as part of a long legacy of Indigenous organizing that came before us.