Community Spirit Awards

Each year, First Peoples Fund honors and celebrates exceptional Native artists and culture bearers across the country through the Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards. These artists embody their People's cultural assets in their creations and their way of life.  

Award amount: $7,500
Nomination Deadline: August 7, 2020.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2020

Eligibility
Nominees must be practicing Native artists who have demonstrated a lifetime of commitment to their art, engaging in their work for at least 10 years.
Nominees must be an enrolled member, or provide proof of lineal descendancy of, a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. 
The award is open to artists of any medium, from visual to performing to literary, in both traditional and contemporary forms.

Learn more about this funding opportunity here.