Through the School for Advanced Research’s new initiative, SAR Learns!, the instituion provides $50,000 in grants to 16 regional Indigenous artists, including Nanibaa Beck (Diné), Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo/Tewa), Harold Littlebird (Laguna/Kewa Pueblos), Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo/ Tewa), and Kathleen Wall ( Jemez Pueblo). SAR Learns! was developed to support intergenerational learning and knowledge transmission during the pandemic. The awards, taken from re-directed grant funds, will enable the artists to launch or complete proposed projects. “As the pandemic continued to progress over the course of the last year, and opportunities to sell work continued to be limited, it became increasingly apparent how much the artist community, especially the Native artist community, was struggling,” said Elysia Poon, director of SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center, in a news release. “From our conversations with artists, we saw how this, in addition to the stress of the pandemic impacting Native communities at higher rates, heightened the need to respond in a direct way.” The recipients were drawn from an application pool of former SAR Native artist fellows. sarweb.org — Michael Abatemarco