The First Peoples Fund (FPF) Native Performing Arts (NPA) Fellowship supports emerging and established Native performing artists to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge of their craft.
Donor Name: First Peoples Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 07/15/2026
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Native Performing Arts (NPA) Fellowship is a year-long program that helps Native Artists create, practice and perform within the Performing Arts (theater, music, dance, live performance, etc.). The program provides them with network-building, professional development training and funding to work toward building a sustainable career within the Performing Arts landscape.
Examples of artistic growth needs or career goals can include (but are not limited to): Taking classes, seminars, workshops, private lessons with professional experts or coaches in any field of performing arts, consulting legal, and financial professionals (agent, publicist, tour manager, etc.), creating a website to showcase your performance work, getting professional headshots, building a marketing strategy for your performances, or strengthening relationships with cultural bearers and teachers to maintain cultural knowledge and values.
Funding Information
The NPA Fellowship offers a one-year $10,000 grant to Native performing artists.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of application.
- Applicants must reside and be based within the U.S.
- Applicants who reside outside of the U.S. are ineligible to apply.
- Applicants must be an enrolled member of, or provide proof of lineal descendancy from, a U.S. federally-recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe, or be able to provide proof of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.
- For more information about acceptable documents, please click here.
- Applicants may not be enrolled in any academic, degree-granting program
- Recipients of any 2026 First Peoples Fund (FPF) fellowships are not eligible to apply for the 2027 NPA Fellowship.
Individuals or lead applicants for an organization/business/collective that received a 2026 Live Production Grant are not eligible to apply for the 2027 NPA Fellowship. - Lead applicants or main contacts for any organization/business/collective that received a Rooted Pathways, Weaving Kinship in 2025 or 2026 are not eligible to apply for the 2027 NPA Fellowship
- Previous grantees with any First Peoples Fund programs must have submitted a final report for any awarded FPF grants.
For more information, visit First Peoples Fund.
