2025 Project Award

Indra Arriaga Delgado from Anchorage via Veracruz, Mexico made a traditional Indigenous offering to the Arctic in the spring of 2025 to ask for kinship and openness to find solutions to the ongoing climate crisis and human challenges. She proposes to complete an experimental prose book with photographs to make tangible the intangible ritual acts of bridging worlds. 

When asked what she would like the public to know, Delgado responded, “Art in community changes the world; Agripina Rodriguez, our Grandmother, would be proud.”

Photos from Indra Arriaga Delgado’s “Indigenous Mexican Offering to the Arctic” in 2025. It was held near the 80th parallel along the west coast of Svalbard, Norway.

About the artist

Indra Arriaga is a Mexican artist, author and researcher living and working in Alaska. Indra’s art has shown internationally in Germany, Oman, Bulgaria, France and Armenia, in U.S. cities including San Francisco and New York, and around Alaska. Arriaga also works as a consultant in economic and social research. Arriaga serves on the boards of Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage Youth Court, and Sol de Medianoche.

2019 Project Award

Arriaga will create “Opaque Etymologies,” with experimental poetry and prose, intaglio prints, and a performance exploring decolonization, identity and language. This connects to the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages.