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“Fashion and costume designer Tishna Marlowe, credits her grandmother, Madeline, and great-grandmother, Marie Casaway (all members of Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation) for teaching her the foundations of sewing and beadwork.

“Born and raised in Łutsël K’é (Place of Small Fish), a community on the East Arm of Tu Nedhé (Great Slave Lake) in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Tishna was surrounded by female Dënesųłı̨né (Chipewyan) makers. 

“She commends her grandmothers’ expertise as Dënesųłı̨né seamstresses and beaders; her great-grandmother Marie scraped tanned hides and beaded into her 80s. (‘She saw tepees to cell phones,’ Tishna says.) 

“This strong Dënesųłı̨né matrilineal line continues with Tishna’s independent fashion brand, Dene Couture.”

In a new essay for #ForgingJournal, Sháńdíín Brown (Diné) @shandiinbrown spotlights Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation fashion designer Tishna Marlowe @dene_couture_by_tishna_marlowe for whom independent couture isn’t just about Indigenous self-expression in an increasingly corporate industry; it has become a way of connecting to her ancestors and preserving a strong Dënesųłı̨né matrilineal line.

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Sháńdíín Brown (Diné) is a curator, creative, PhD student in the History of Art department at Yale University and a citizen of the Navajo Nation. Her research focuses on multitemporal Native American art and fashion, with an emphasis on its connections to global Indigenous contemporary art, Indigenous feminism, and Indigenous futurism. Her jewelry practice can be viewed on Instagram at @T.Begay.Designs.

Read the entire piece online via the #LinkInBio.

Today, May 21, Forge Project is joining #NativeNonprofits across #IndianCountry in celebration of #NativeNonprofitDay!

#NativeNonprofitDay is a giving initiative aimed at increasing support for Native-led organizations nationwide.

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing, but they don’t have the support or resources they need.

Large-scale philanthropic giving is a billion-dollar industry — but Native-led organizations receive only 0.25% of foundation giving. 

For population parity (2.9%), giving would need to increase eleven-fold. And that’s not accounting for what’s needed to repair decades of philanthropic underinvestment.

Funding equity requires action. This #NativeNonprofitDay, support Native-led organizations — and call on philanthropy to meet its responsibility.

Forge Project is proud to join @nativewaysfederation’s list of 300+ Native Nonprofits who are working across IndianCountry.

Visit GiveNative.org to learn more about Native Nonprofit Day.

Today, May 21, Forge Project is joining #NativeNonprofits across #IndianCountry in celebration of #NativeNonprofitDay!

#NativeNonprofitDay is a giving initiative aimed at increasing support for Native-led organizations nationwide.

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing, but they don’t have the support or resources they need.

Large-scale philanthropic giving is a billion-dollar industry — but Native-led organizations receive only 0.25% of foundation giving. 

For population parity (2.9%), giving would need to increase eleven-fold. And that’s not accounting for what’s needed to repair decades of philanthropic underinvestment.

Funding equity requires action. This #NativeNonprofitDay, support Native-led organizations — and call on philanthropy to meet its responsibility.

Forge Project is proud to join @nativewaysfederation’s list of 300+ Native Nonprofits who are working across IndianCountry.

Visit GiveNative.org to learn more about Native Nonprofit Day.

Today, May 21, Forge Project is joining #NativeNonprofits across #IndianCountry in celebration of #NativeNonprofitDay!

#NativeNonprofitDay is a giving initiative aimed at increasing support for Native-led organizations nationwide.

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing, but they don’t have the support or resources they need.

Large-scale philanthropic giving is a billion-dollar industry — but Native-led organizations receive only 0.25% of foundation giving. 

For population parity (2.9%), giving would need to increase eleven-fold. And that’s not accounting for what’s needed to repair decades of philanthropic underinvestment.

Funding equity requires action. This #NativeNonprofitDay, support Native-led organizations — and call on philanthropy to meet its responsibility.

Forge Project is proud to join @nativewaysfederation’s list of 300+ Native Nonprofits who are working across IndianCountry.

Visit GiveNative.org to learn more about Native Nonprofit Day.

Today, May 21, Forge Project is joining #NativeNonprofits across #IndianCountry in celebration of #NativeNonprofitDay!

#NativeNonprofitDay is a giving initiative aimed at increasing support for Native-led organizations nationwide.

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing, but they don’t have the support or resources they need.

Large-scale philanthropic giving is a billion-dollar industry — but Native-led organizations receive only 0.25% of foundation giving. 

For population parity (2.9%), giving would need to increase eleven-fold. And that’s not accounting for what’s needed to repair decades of philanthropic underinvestment.

Funding equity requires action. This #NativeNonprofitDay, support Native-led organizations — and call on philanthropy to meet its responsibility.

Forge Project is proud to join @nativewaysfederation’s list of 300+ Native Nonprofits who are working across IndianCountry.

Visit GiveNative.org to learn more about Native Nonprofit Day.

Today, May 21, Forge Project is joining #NativeNonprofits across #IndianCountry in celebration of #NativeNonprofitDay!

#NativeNonprofitDay is a giving initiative aimed at increasing support for Native-led organizations nationwide.

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing, but they don’t have the support or resources they need.

Large-scale philanthropic giving is a billion-dollar industry — but Native-led organizations receive only 0.25% of foundation giving. 

For population parity (2.9%), giving would need to increase eleven-fold. And that’s not accounting for what’s needed to repair decades of philanthropic underinvestment.

Funding equity requires action. This #NativeNonprofitDay, support Native-led organizations — and call on philanthropy to meet its responsibility.

Forge Project is proud to join @nativewaysfederation’s list of 300+ Native Nonprofits who are working across IndianCountry.

Visit GiveNative.org to learn more about Native Nonprofit Day.

This Thursday, we invite you to join Bonney Hartley (@bonnhar) and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant (@neenuw) for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen Shinnecock Succotash Cooking and She Sits With Me, two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk [She Speaks], a Shinnecock women’s language group. Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]), Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being - that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination.

Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island, Making the Worlds (Presence) centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.
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🗓️Thursday, May 21st | 7–9pm
📍OPEN ROOM on PSNY’s 4th Floor
🖤RSVP at the link in our bio!

As part of a series co-presented by @forgeprojectny and @ccsbard, artist Marilou Schultz (Diné/Navajo) spoke about her work on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard.
In the shared hour and a half, Marilou spoke about family stories, weaving histories, and how those stories and histories have influenced her work to this day and have pushed her to always challenge herself to do something different — to innovate.

Marilou shared that she is a multigenerational weaver, having learned from her mother and grandmother. She spent time learning the traditions from the time she was six or seven — through the loom she wove on, the tools she used, and the traditions and patterns she wove.

It is those traditions and those histories that she carries with her through her weaving: “The most important thing with all this is that the techniques that I use are basically the same techniques that my ancestors used. Their simple rectangular loom and the weaving tools are basically the same, and the only difference is the material.”

With the material, her experimental approach has really carried her, too. Marilou has spent her career innovating — experimenting with patterns, traditions, colors, wool dyeing, and with older techniques reapplied and modified. ““I think the thing that drives me is the challenge to try new things and see what I can do with it.”

Forge is pleased to share that the video recording of Marilou’s April 2025 talk has now been uploaded to our Vimeo channel with closed captions available. Click the #LinkInBio to watch it now (and see our ever-expanding archive of Forge talks and events).

As part of a series co-presented by @forgeprojectny and @ccsbard, artist Marilou Schultz (Diné/Navajo) spoke about her work on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard.
In the shared hour and a half, Marilou spoke about family stories, weaving histories, and how those stories and histories have influenced her work to this day and have pushed her to always challenge herself to do something different — to innovate.

Marilou shared that she is a multigenerational weaver, having learned from her mother and grandmother. She spent time learning the traditions from the time she was six or seven — through the loom she wove on, the tools she used, and the traditions and patterns she wove.

It is those traditions and those histories that she carries with her through her weaving: “The most important thing with all this is that the techniques that I use are basically the same techniques that my ancestors used. Their simple rectangular loom and the weaving tools are basically the same, and the only difference is the material.”

With the material, her experimental approach has really carried her, too. Marilou has spent her career innovating — experimenting with patterns, traditions, colors, wool dyeing, and with older techniques reapplied and modified. ““I think the thing that drives me is the challenge to try new things and see what I can do with it.”

Forge is pleased to share that the video recording of Marilou’s April 2025 talk has now been uploaded to our Vimeo channel with closed captions available. Click the #LinkInBio to watch it now (and see our ever-expanding archive of Forge talks and events).

As part of a series co-presented by @forgeprojectny and @ccsbard, artist Marilou Schultz (Diné/Navajo) spoke about her work on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard.
In the shared hour and a half, Marilou spoke about family stories, weaving histories, and how those stories and histories have influenced her work to this day and have pushed her to always challenge herself to do something different — to innovate.

Marilou shared that she is a multigenerational weaver, having learned from her mother and grandmother. She spent time learning the traditions from the time she was six or seven — through the loom she wove on, the tools she used, and the traditions and patterns she wove.

It is those traditions and those histories that she carries with her through her weaving: “The most important thing with all this is that the techniques that I use are basically the same techniques that my ancestors used. Their simple rectangular loom and the weaving tools are basically the same, and the only difference is the material.”

With the material, her experimental approach has really carried her, too. Marilou has spent her career innovating — experimenting with patterns, traditions, colors, wool dyeing, and with older techniques reapplied and modified. ““I think the thing that drives me is the challenge to try new things and see what I can do with it.”

Forge is pleased to share that the video recording of Marilou’s April 2025 talk has now been uploaded to our Vimeo channel with closed captions available. Click the #LinkInBio to watch it now (and see our ever-expanding archive of Forge talks and events).

As part of a series co-presented by @forgeprojectny and @ccsbard, artist Marilou Schultz (Diné/Navajo) spoke about her work on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard.
In the shared hour and a half, Marilou spoke about family stories, weaving histories, and how those stories and histories have influenced her work to this day and have pushed her to always challenge herself to do something different — to innovate.

Marilou shared that she is a multigenerational weaver, having learned from her mother and grandmother. She spent time learning the traditions from the time she was six or seven — through the loom she wove on, the tools she used, and the traditions and patterns she wove.

It is those traditions and those histories that she carries with her through her weaving: “The most important thing with all this is that the techniques that I use are basically the same techniques that my ancestors used. Their simple rectangular loom and the weaving tools are basically the same, and the only difference is the material.”

With the material, her experimental approach has really carried her, too. Marilou has spent her career innovating — experimenting with patterns, traditions, colors, wool dyeing, and with older techniques reapplied and modified. ““I think the thing that drives me is the challenge to try new things and see what I can do with it.”

Forge is pleased to share that the video recording of Marilou’s April 2025 talk has now been uploaded to our Vimeo channel with closed captions available. Click the #LinkInBio to watch it now (and see our ever-expanding archive of Forge talks and events).

Thursday, May 21, 7–9pm, please join Bonney Hartley @bonnhar and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant @neenuw for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York @performance.space.new.york as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen “Shinnecock Succotash Cooking” and “She Sits With Me,” two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk [She Speaks], a Shinnecock women’s language group. 

Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]) @sarahbiscarradilley, Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. 

While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being - that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination. 

Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island,  “Making the Worlds (Presence)” centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Photo Credits:
Bonney Hartley by Thatcher Keats.

Thursday, May 21, 7–9pm, please join Bonney Hartley @bonnhar and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant @neenuw for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York @performance.space.new.york as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen “Shinnecock Succotash Cooking” and “She Sits With Me,” two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk [She Speaks], a Shinnecock women’s language group. 

Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]) @sarahbiscarradilley, Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. 

While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being - that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination. 

Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island,  “Making the Worlds (Presence)” centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Photo Credits:
Bonney Hartley by Thatcher Keats.

Thursday, May 21, 7–9pm, please join Bonney Hartley @bonnhar and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant @neenuw for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York @performance.space.new.york as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen “Shinnecock Succotash Cooking” and “She Sits With Me,” two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk [She Speaks], a Shinnecock women’s language group. 

Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]) @sarahbiscarradilley, Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. 

While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being - that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination. 

Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island,  “Making the Worlds (Presence)” centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Photo Credits:
Bonney Hartley by Thatcher Keats.

🌱 DATE CHANGE: Spring Meadow Work Day will now take place Friday, May 15 due to weather conditions.

Forge Project invites neighbors from the region to join us for a seasonal opportunity to participate hands-on in remediation work onsite and learn simple restoration practices that can be folded into home spaces and gardens.

Introductions will be led at 4:15pm and 5:45pm. Guests are welcome to stay for the full duration.

Basic plant identification will be led by allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program.

Please bring gardening gloves, hand tools if possible, and a water bottle. Snacks and beverages will be provided.

Thank you for your flexibility — we hope to see you Friday! 🌱

Please email info@forgeproject.com or Operations Director Paloma Wake paloma@forgeproject.com with any questions.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

@forgeprojectny is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Forge Fellowship!

🌱Jay Bellis (Haida, Kootenay), @bad.dad.2017
🌱Michael Bowman Sr. (Stockbridge-Munsee)
🌱Heidi Brandow (Diné, Kanaka Maoli), @heidikbrandow
🌱Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh)), @charinepilar
🌱Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), @indigenousndn
🌱Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/Kānaka ʻŌiwi), @tiareribeaux

The six members of the Forge Project 2026 Fellowship cohort are reflective of a diversity of Indigenous thinkers, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners working in Native North America today. They represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that build Native futures through multidisciplinarity and collective engagement.

Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of contemporary Indigenous art during a residency stay of up to three weeks. 

The 2026 Forge Project Fellowship applications were reviewed by a a juried panel of four distinguished Native cultural practitioners, artists, writers, scholars and former Fellows, including: Lou Cornum (Diné); Jeanette Jemison (Mohawk); and Brittani Orona (Hupa); and Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes), @r.skye.t.

The two Fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate juried panel of three Native knowledge holders and practitioners and former fellows including: Joleece Pecore (Ho-Chunk, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, and Menominee), @joleece.pecore; Kristi Leora Gansworth (Kitigan Zibi Anishnaabeg); and Nicole Wallace (Second-generation Descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), @nmwnmwnmwnmw.

The Forge Project Fellowship, which received over 150 applications this year, is reviewed with consideration of each applicant’s practice, spoken or written reflections, and depth of community relations.

Learn all about the 2026 Forge Project Fellows on our website via the #LinkInBio.

Thursday, May 7, 7–9pm, please join members of the 2025–2026 Forging journal cohort for a conversation on issues and opportunities facing writers working today hosted at Performance Space New York (@performance.space.new.york) as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Forging editorial advisory committee member Joseph M. Pierce (@pepepierce) will moderate a conversation between writers and cohort members Adrienne Keene (@nativeapprops) and Angélica María Cuevas (@angelicamcuevas) on working across genres, languages, and geographical contexts, from personal histories of displacement on Cherokee Nation to current fights for territorial sovereignty in the Amazon. 

The writers will also discuss how they engage with and hold themselves accountable to these stories, and the role art plays in mobilizing narratives beyond cultural spaces and into broader political arenas.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Images:
Portrait of Joseph M. Pierce. Credit: Marcin Muchalski, The Museum of Modern Art.

Thursday, May 7, 7–9pm, please join members of the 2025–2026 Forging journal cohort for a conversation on issues and opportunities facing writers working today hosted at Performance Space New York (@performance.space.new.york) as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Forging editorial advisory committee member Joseph M. Pierce (@pepepierce) will moderate a conversation between writers and cohort members Adrienne Keene (@nativeapprops) and Angélica María Cuevas (@angelicamcuevas) on working across genres, languages, and geographical contexts, from personal histories of displacement on Cherokee Nation to current fights for territorial sovereignty in the Amazon. 

The writers will also discuss how they engage with and hold themselves accountable to these stories, and the role art plays in mobilizing narratives beyond cultural spaces and into broader political arenas.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Images:
Portrait of Joseph M. Pierce. Credit: Marcin Muchalski, The Museum of Modern Art.

Thursday, May 7, 7–9pm, please join members of the 2025–2026 Forging journal cohort for a conversation on issues and opportunities facing writers working today hosted at Performance Space New York (@performance.space.new.york) as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Forging editorial advisory committee member Joseph M. Pierce (@pepepierce) will moderate a conversation between writers and cohort members Adrienne Keene (@nativeapprops) and Angélica María Cuevas (@angelicamcuevas) on working across genres, languages, and geographical contexts, from personal histories of displacement on Cherokee Nation to current fights for territorial sovereignty in the Amazon. 

The writers will also discuss how they engage with and hold themselves accountable to these stories, and the role art plays in mobilizing narratives beyond cultural spaces and into broader political arenas.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Images:
Portrait of Joseph M. Pierce. Credit: Marcin Muchalski, The Museum of Modern Art.

Thursday, May 7, 7–9pm, please join members of the 2025–2026 Forging journal cohort for a conversation on issues and opportunities facing writers working today hosted at Performance Space New York (@performance.space.new.york) as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Forging editorial advisory committee member Joseph M. Pierce (@pepepierce) will moderate a conversation between writers and cohort members Adrienne Keene (@nativeapprops) and Angélica María Cuevas (@angelicamcuevas) on working across genres, languages, and geographical contexts, from personal histories of displacement on Cherokee Nation to current fights for territorial sovereignty in the Amazon. 

The writers will also discuss how they engage with and hold themselves accountable to these stories, and the role art plays in mobilizing narratives beyond cultural spaces and into broader political arenas.  

RSVP for May 7 via the #LinkInBio.

Images:
Portrait of Joseph M. Pierce. Credit: Marcin Muchalski, The Museum of Modern Art.

While the in-person program is at capacity, we’d love to have you join us via Instagram livestream on Saturday, May 2!

We will be broadcasting most of the afternoon’s celebration of the Mahicannituck Valley launch of “Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance.”

⭐Schedule ⭐
2pm — OPENING
🌟Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) & Lauren Cornell (@lauren1cornell)

2:20pm — PRESENTATIONS
🌟2:20–2:40 — Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes) on the evolution of Native Visual Sovereignty

🌟3:25–3:45 —  Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith) on the performance practice of James Luna

4pm — SCREENING
🌟4:00–4:30 — Screening of Sky Hopinka’s  “Sunflower Engine Siege” (@skyhopinka)

4:30pm — PANEL
🌟4:30–5:15 — Conversation between renowned scholars and artists Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes), Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith), Kite (@kitekitekitekitekite), and Sky Hopinka (@skyhopinka), moderated by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) 

Readings by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) and Brandee Caoba (@brandeecaoba) will be interspersed throughout.

**Please note: The day’s programming includes a performance of Kite’s score “Iktómiwiŋ”. This performance will not be livestreamed due to the nature of the performance and its setting.

***Please also note: Professional recordings of the entire day’s program (including Kite’s score) will be uploaded to Forge’s Vimeo (vimeo.com/forgeprojectny) in the coming weeks for those unable to join us and those who wish to revisit the programming in the future.

While the in-person program is at capacity, we’d love to have you join us via Instagram livestream on Saturday, May 2!

We will be broadcasting most of the afternoon’s celebration of the Mahicannituck Valley launch of “Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance.”

⭐Schedule ⭐
2pm — OPENING
🌟Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) & Lauren Cornell (@lauren1cornell)

2:20pm — PRESENTATIONS
🌟2:20–2:40 — Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes) on the evolution of Native Visual Sovereignty

🌟3:25–3:45 —  Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith) on the performance practice of James Luna

4pm — SCREENING
🌟4:00–4:30 — Screening of Sky Hopinka’s  “Sunflower Engine Siege” (@skyhopinka)

4:30pm — PANEL
🌟4:30–5:15 — Conversation between renowned scholars and artists Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes), Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith), Kite (@kitekitekitekitekite), and Sky Hopinka (@skyhopinka), moderated by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) 

Readings by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) and Brandee Caoba (@brandeecaoba) will be interspersed throughout.

**Please note: The day’s programming includes a performance of Kite’s score “Iktómiwiŋ”. This performance will not be livestreamed due to the nature of the performance and its setting.

***Please also note: Professional recordings of the entire day’s program (including Kite’s score) will be uploaded to Forge’s Vimeo (vimeo.com/forgeprojectny) in the coming weeks for those unable to join us and those who wish to revisit the programming in the future.

While the in-person program is at capacity, we’d love to have you join us via Instagram livestream on Saturday, May 2!

We will be broadcasting most of the afternoon’s celebration of the Mahicannituck Valley launch of “Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance.”

⭐Schedule ⭐
2pm — OPENING
🌟Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) & Lauren Cornell (@lauren1cornell)

2:20pm — PRESENTATIONS
🌟2:20–2:40 — Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes) on the evolution of Native Visual Sovereignty

🌟3:25–3:45 —  Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith) on the performance practice of James Luna

4pm — SCREENING
🌟4:00–4:30 — Screening of Sky Hopinka’s  “Sunflower Engine Siege” (@skyhopinka)

4:30pm — PANEL
🌟4:30–5:15 — Conversation between renowned scholars and artists Jolene Rickard (@jrickardmakes), Paul Chaat Smith (@paulchaatsmith), Kite (@kitekitekitekitekite), and Sky Hopinka (@skyhopinka), moderated by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) 

Readings by Candice Hopkins (@candicebhopkins) and Brandee Caoba (@brandeecaoba) will be interspersed throughout.

**Please note: The day’s programming includes a performance of Kite’s score “Iktómiwiŋ”. This performance will not be livestreamed due to the nature of the performance and its setting.

***Please also note: Professional recordings of the entire day’s program (including Kite’s score) will be uploaded to Forge’s Vimeo (vimeo.com/forgeprojectny) in the coming weeks for those unable to join us and those who wish to revisit the programming in the future.

Join us at Forge Project on Friday, May 8 for a staff-led Site Visit.

These two-hour visits (10am + 2pm ET) are small group gatherings designed as introductions to the team, the spaces, the art, and the land we are in relationship with.

The visit begins with an invitation to share coffee, tea, and light snacks around the dining table, where we ask visitors to share a bit about themselves as we get to know each other.

The Forge team then shares an introduction to Forge and our approach to cultural work, care, and sustained support.

We then move through the spaces together — the main residence, the guest residence gallery space, and the meadow, weather permitting — to spend time with the work and talk a bit more about what programming looks like at Forge.

RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Join us at Forge Project on Friday, May 8 for a staff-led Site Visit.

These two-hour visits (10am + 2pm ET) are small group gatherings designed as introductions to the team, the spaces, the art, and the land we are in relationship with.

The visit begins with an invitation to share coffee, tea, and light snacks around the dining table, where we ask visitors to share a bit about themselves as we get to know each other.

The Forge team then shares an introduction to Forge and our approach to cultural work, care, and sustained support.

We then move through the spaces together — the main residence, the guest residence gallery space, and the meadow, weather permitting — to spend time with the work and talk a bit more about what programming looks like at Forge.

RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Join us at Forge Project on Friday, May 8 for a staff-led Site Visit.

These two-hour visits (10am + 2pm ET) are small group gatherings designed as introductions to the team, the spaces, the art, and the land we are in relationship with.

The visit begins with an invitation to share coffee, tea, and light snacks around the dining table, where we ask visitors to share a bit about themselves as we get to know each other.

The Forge team then shares an introduction to Forge and our approach to cultural work, care, and sustained support.

We then move through the spaces together — the main residence, the guest residence gallery space, and the meadow, weather permitting — to spend time with the work and talk a bit more about what programming looks like at Forge.

RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Join us at Forge Project on Friday, May 8 for a staff-led Site Visit.

These two-hour visits (10am + 2pm ET) are small group gatherings designed as introductions to the team, the spaces, the art, and the land we are in relationship with.

The visit begins with an invitation to share coffee, tea, and light snacks around the dining table, where we ask visitors to share a bit about themselves as we get to know each other.

The Forge team then shares an introduction to Forge and our approach to cultural work, care, and sustained support.

We then move through the spaces together — the main residence, the guest residence gallery space, and the meadow, weather permitting — to spend time with the work and talk a bit more about what programming looks like at Forge.

RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Join us at Forge Project on Friday, May 8 for a staff-led Site Visit.

These two-hour visits (10am + 2pm ET) are small group gatherings designed as introductions to the team, the spaces, the art, and the land we are in relationship with.

The visit begins with an invitation to share coffee, tea, and light snacks around the dining table, where we ask visitors to share a bit about themselves as we get to know each other.

The Forge team then shares an introduction to Forge and our approach to cultural work, care, and sustained support.

We then move through the spaces together — the main residence, the guest residence gallery space, and the meadow, weather permitting — to spend time with the work and talk a bit more about what programming looks like at Forge.

RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Meadow Work Days are an invitation to spend time with the land — learning and working alongside one another.

🌱Spring Meadow Work Day: Thursday, May 14
🌱Summer Meadow Work Day: Thursday, June 4
🌱Fall Meadow Work Day: Thursday, September 17

Introductions are led at the beginning of each session, two sessions per workday. 

🌞Paloma Wake, Operations Director, will introduce the group to Forge and share about our approach to relational land stewardship..

🌞Allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will share basic plant identification. 

Participants will then spend an hour or so in the meadow alongside Paloma, Claudia, and Josie  learning to recognize what’s growing, removing invasive plants, and making space for native ecologies to return and thrive. 

You don’t need to arrive with expertise — just a willingness to learn and participate how you can. We recommend bringing gloves if you have them, a water bottle, and anything you like to work with. We’ll have snacks and drinks to keep us going.

Options for engagement are available to those with limited mobility. Please reach out to paloma@forgeproject.com for details.

Come join us for an afternoon in the meadow! RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Meadow Work Days are an invitation to spend time with the land — learning and working alongside one another.

🌱Spring Meadow Work Day: Thursday, May 14
🌱Summer Meadow Work Day: Thursday, June 4
🌱Fall Meadow Work Day: Thursday, September 17

Introductions are led at the beginning of each session, two sessions per workday. 

🌞Paloma Wake, Operations Director, will introduce the group to Forge and share about our approach to relational land stewardship..

🌞Allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will share basic plant identification. 

Participants will then spend an hour or so in the meadow alongside Paloma, Claudia, and Josie  learning to recognize what’s growing, removing invasive plants, and making space for native ecologies to return and thrive. 

You don’t need to arrive with expertise — just a willingness to learn and participate how you can. We recommend bringing gloves if you have them, a water bottle, and anything you like to work with. We’ll have snacks and drinks to keep us going.

Options for engagement are available to those with limited mobility. Please reach out to paloma@forgeproject.com for details.

Come join us for an afternoon in the meadow! RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Meadow Work Days are an invitation to spend time with the land — learning and working alongside one another.

🌱Spring Meadow Work Day: Thursday, May 14
🌱Summer Meadow Work Day: Thursday, June 4
🌱Fall Meadow Work Day: Thursday, September 17

Introductions are led at the beginning of each session, two sessions per workday. 

🌞Paloma Wake, Operations Director, will introduce the group to Forge and share about our approach to relational land stewardship..

🌞Allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will share basic plant identification. 

Participants will then spend an hour or so in the meadow alongside Paloma, Claudia, and Josie  learning to recognize what’s growing, removing invasive plants, and making space for native ecologies to return and thrive. 

You don’t need to arrive with expertise — just a willingness to learn and participate how you can. We recommend bringing gloves if you have them, a water bottle, and anything you like to work with. We’ll have snacks and drinks to keep us going.

Options for engagement are available to those with limited mobility. Please reach out to paloma@forgeproject.com for details.

Come join us for an afternoon in the meadow! RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Meadow Work Days are an invitation to spend time with the land — learning and working alongside one another.

🌱Spring Meadow Work Day: Thursday, May 14
🌱Summer Meadow Work Day: Thursday, June 4
🌱Fall Meadow Work Day: Thursday, September 17

Introductions are led at the beginning of each session, two sessions per workday. 

🌞Paloma Wake, Operations Director, will introduce the group to Forge and share about our approach to relational land stewardship..

🌞Allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will share basic plant identification. 

Participants will then spend an hour or so in the meadow alongside Paloma, Claudia, and Josie  learning to recognize what’s growing, removing invasive plants, and making space for native ecologies to return and thrive. 

You don’t need to arrive with expertise — just a willingness to learn and participate how you can. We recommend bringing gloves if you have them, a water bottle, and anything you like to work with. We’ll have snacks and drinks to keep us going.

Options for engagement are available to those with limited mobility. Please reach out to paloma@forgeproject.com for details.

Come join us for an afternoon in the meadow! RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Meadow Work Days are an invitation to spend time with the land — learning and working alongside one another.

🌱Spring Meadow Work Day: Thursday, May 14
🌱Summer Meadow Work Day: Thursday, June 4
🌱Fall Meadow Work Day: Thursday, September 17

Introductions are led at the beginning of each session, two sessions per workday. 

🌞Paloma Wake, Operations Director, will introduce the group to Forge and share about our approach to relational land stewardship..

🌞Allied botanists Claudia Knab-Vispo and Josie Laing of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will share basic plant identification. 

Participants will then spend an hour or so in the meadow alongside Paloma, Claudia, and Josie  learning to recognize what’s growing, removing invasive plants, and making space for native ecologies to return and thrive. 

You don’t need to arrive with expertise — just a willingness to learn and participate how you can. We recommend bringing gloves if you have them, a water bottle, and anything you like to work with. We’ll have snacks and drinks to keep us going.

Options for engagement are available to those with limited mobility. Please reach out to paloma@forgeproject.com for details.

Come join us for an afternoon in the meadow! RSVP via the #LinkInBio.

Join our team! @forgeprojectny is hiring a part-time Administrative Associate.

Forge Project is seeking a highly organized communicator with exceptional project management skills. The position will coordinate meetings, communications, and administrative projects with the internal team at Forge Project. 

This position reports to the Operations Director and works closely with other director level staff including the Executive Director and Chief Curator and the Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality. This position will also coordinate projects directly involving the Indigenous Steering Council (ISC), Board of Directors, and select outside consultants.

Forge is a dynamic organization and our Programs, Collections, Editorial, Development, and Operations departments work collaboratively. This role will work directly with staff across the organization to refine and maintain administrative systems. 

The role encompasses logistical, communications, technical, and administrative work, as well as creative thinking around organizational, strategic, and financial goals. This position requires a high level of accountability and discernment while having a great deal of latitude for personal time management. 

Compensation: Part-time non-exempt (statutory benefits only); $30-35/hour, part-time 20-hours/week

Location: This is a hybrid position, primarily remote with flexible in-person schedule, located near Taghkanic, NY (not accessible by public transportation). Candidate must be based in the broader Mahicannituck (Hudson) Valley region, or willing to commute onsite on occasion​​, and have a valid driver’s license.

To apply, submit your cover letter and resume to hr@forgeproject.com. This position will remain open until filled and applications submitted on or before May 5, 2026 will receive a full review.

Forge Project is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please email Operations Director, Paloma Wake, at hr@forgeproject.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Read the entire job description via the #LinkInBio.