Scholarship Recipient Christine Hartman Derr Thrives at Native Creatives RetreatApril 22, 2025 | Native Creatives, Scholarship StoriesChristine Hartman Derr is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She’s a graduate from VCFA’s Writing for ...
Celebrating a Book Birthday With Two Native Creatives: Andrea L. Rogers + Rebecca Lee KunzNovember 20, 2024 | Community Good News, Native Creatives, The Highlights Foundation ExperienceCat Galeano joined author Andrea L. Rogers and illustrator Rebecca Lee Kunz on Instagram Live to celebrate their ...
2024 Art Wall Installation Features Powwow DayJune 14, 2024 | Art Wall, Native Creatives, The Highlights Foundation ExperienceWe are excited to celebrate the 2024 Art Wall at the Barn at Boyds Mills! This year’s installation celebrates ...
3 Questions With Heidi EY Stemple and Andrea Page about Writing Nonfiction for ChildrenApril 18, 2024 | 3 Questions With, Native Creatives, NonfictionHeidi EY Stemple and Andrea Page, hosts for our Working Retreat: Nonfiction and Informational Fiction, joined ...By: Heidi E. Y. StempleAndrea Page
Traci Sorell: Celebrating and Supporting Native Creatives on Giving TuesdayNovember 21, 2023 | Native Creatives, The Highlights Foundation Experience“Whether through words or art, Indigenous storytellers convey connection and community through their craft. But ...By: Traci Sorell
Podcast: Traci Sorell, Andrea Page, and Monique Gray SmithNovember 2, 2023 | Essential Conversations, Native Creatives, Podcasts, The Highlights Foundation ExperienceWhat You'll Find In this Podcast Traci Sorell, Andrea Page, and Monique Gray Smith joined George Brown to discuss ...By: Traci SorellAndrea PageMonique Gray Smith
Cooking Up Stories: Mascot Plus a Recipe and a PromptAugust 31, 2023 | Black Voices, Food & Friends, Native CreativesWe love it when Chef Amanda and author Padma Venkatraman pair up to share a recipe and writing prompt for our ...By: Padma VenkatramanTraci SorellCharles Waters
Uplifting Indigenous Storytellers on #GivingTuesdayDecember 12, 2022 | Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Native CreativesWe'd like to thank Traci Sorell, author and Highlights Foundation faculty member, for this blog post. Note: to see ...By: Traci Sorell
From Scholarship to Workshop to Book with Traci SorellFebruary 14, 2022 | Community Good News, Native Creatives, Scholarship Stories, The Highlights Foundation ExperienceIn 2017, Traci Sorell received a scholarship to attend the Novels in Verse workshop at the Highlights ...By: Traci Sorell
Cooking Up Stories: We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga Plus a Recipe and a PromptNovember 5, 2021 | Food & Friends, Native CreativesWe love it when Chef Amanda and author Padma Venkatraman pair up to share a recipe and writing prompt for our ...By: Padma VenkatramanTraci Sorell
Congratulations to Our Faculty 2020 ALA Youth Media Award Winners!January 28, 2020 | Black Voices, Community Good News, Jewish Voices, Latinx Voices, Native Creatives, Nonfiction, Novels, Novels in Verse, Picture BooksThis year, some of the Highlights Foundation Team were able to be there in person when the ALA Youth Media Awards ...
Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Gerry Himmelreich Talks About His WhyAugust 24, 2019 | Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Native Creatives“I write for those Native kids who want to see our gods, heroes, relatives and tricksters still walking among us, ...