NAICA—a possible ressurection

So, I spoke with NAICA founder, Maria Colon over the past week. We discussed the current situations of our NAICA members and where most of us are in relation to NAICA and America's wonderful recession. I had mentioned my desire to maintain NAICA as a viable non-profit so we could continue our intended mission and grow intellectually and conceptually. She was all about it. Hopefully, aside from some of our financial situations we will be a federal non-profit. We are already a NY state non-profit, but due to our combined limited funds and other fiscal responsibilities, we must approach this with care and diligence. For me, I'm trying to save enough money to purchase a new system that will allow me to keep creating my video art, graphic and web design so I can maintain my client base, although it was feasible in the recent past, bills came first. Now, I am working toward purchasing that new laptop, or if I'm lucky a MacPro or 27-inch iMac QuadPro, if I'm lucky. This will allow me to continue my work, and be able to contribute regularly to NAICA.

NAICA is looking to expand, not to lock ourselves down to the Native American/Indigenous North America or US populations, we'd like to include the other continental Indigenous populations in our coverage and evolve in other directions that allow us to continue to provide our unique perspective and spotlight art that doesn't only exist at film festivals of 8 hours away.

So, keep an eye on the Internet and NAICA's rebirth of cool, not that it died, only seemingly hibernated. We will be working harder to receive funding so we can reach our goals, mission and evolve in a super hybrid cyborg-like organization.