Description

Urban Indigenous Collective is the fiscal sponsor for Relative Arts. Relative Arts is a new arts space in Manhattan dedicated to promoting Indigenous Futurism through its unique peer-run space in New York City. They operate on consignment agreements with Indigenous vendors, empowering them to set their own prices and ensuring that 70% of sales directly supports the artists. The two Indigenous women who own and operate the shop also produce their own art to sell. Beyond their store, Relative Arts is a local space for Indigenous-led activities including meetings, workshops, celebrations, and art installations. This grant will help support their community programing in 2024 including Bad Aunties Records and Podcast, Indigenous New York Fashion Week, and a variety of regular programming, like pop-ups, poetry readings, book signings, and intimate performances in fashion, art, and music. Relative arts has become a community space especially for young Native youth, where different media are used to transmit Indigenous knowledge.
This will support IKI program plan 1B: To foster an environment conducive of knowledge production in Indigenous communities—one in which knowledge makers and keepers have access to and are supported by a robust infrastructure of organizations, programs, projects, and resources.