With Native Nation, playwright Larissa Fasthorse will create an immersive theatrical experience by collaborating with Lakota communities in South Dakota. "Native Nation combines long term community service with the Cornerstone methodology of creating theater through a Native lens to make work that is truly Indigenous and artistically excellent," the project description reads. Fasthorse is Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux). Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby
Martha Redbone, a singer of Cherokee and Choctaw heritage, will be collaborating with Aaron Whitby on Daughter Of The Hills. The play will focus on a woman who returns to her homeland in the Appalachian Mountains. "In her homecoming, Daughter Of The Hills moves between present day and dreams, the past, and now," the Creative Capital website states Elissa Washuta
Author Elissa Washuta is a citizen of the Cowlitz Tribe whose work frequently chronicles the effect of trauma, disorders and popular culture on her body and identity. A Capital Creative Award will allow her to continue those efforts with White Magic. "White Magic is a personal essay collection about heartbreak, sexual violation, and the artist’s process of becoming a powerful witch," the project description reads.
Nathaniel Corum and Joseph Kunkel will be working with elders and culture bearers of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe to develop a design for Fort Robinson in Nebraska. During the winter of 1878-1879, nearly 150 Northern Cheyenne were held as prisoners by the U.S. at Fort Robinson, and dozens were killed when they tried to escape and return to their homelands. "The artists will listen, interact, and deliver a plan to activate the site for gathering, ceremony, and remembrance," the description for "Place of Gathering and Reconciliation at the Fort Robinson Breakout Site" states. Corum is a designer. Kunkel who is Northern Cheyenne, is a designer and educator. Victor Payan and Pocha Peña
With Dreamocracy in America (Nuevo DIA), artists Victor Payan and Pocha Peña will follow in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose work in the mid-1800s looked at a number of social and political issues in the U.S. "Dreamocracy in America (Nuevo DIA) is a take-no-prisoners time-travelling transdisciplinary tour of America that picks up Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey into the American character where he left off, and completes his epic project by examining immigrant and refugee detention centers, Native reservations, and communities west of the 1831 US border," the Capital Creative Award website reads.
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