Grantee Database

Grant Year

2022-23

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$19,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, and involvement from local Indigenous, Alaska Native, and non-Native participants, MakeAccess will build a nigilax̂, an Unangax̂ open skin boat. While building, Wiyot and Unangax̂ voices will share their unique California-based histories. The finished vessel will be used for engaging with Nature.

Organization Summary

We educate and mentor through curiosity driven hands-on making. Most classes involve wood-working and traditional boat building. We work mainly with the Unangax̂ Tribes of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands of Alaska facilitating cultural revitalization through an apprenticeship program wherein we lead traditional boat-building projects in the Unangax̂ villages of Alaska and in our workshop in Ferndale, California. All of these workshops involve a great degree of bridging the non-Native community with Native community.

Organization

Mind's Eye Manufactory

Address

PO Box 1351

393 Main St

Ferndale

95536

County

Humboldt

Region

Upstate

Phone

(707) 834-3893

Congressional District

2nd Congressional District

State Assembly District

2nd State Assembly district

State Senate District

Senate District 2

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