EAP Award of Recognition - Emerging Arts Professionals SFBA

The annual EAP Award of Recognition honors an arts & culture leader who has centered equity, multiplicity, and peer mentorship to deepen the practices and methodologies of EAP and its network members

Awardees

2024 Tossie Long

2023 Katherin Canton

2022 Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, PHD, MPP

2021 Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods

EAP 2024 Award of Recognition: Tossie Long

Tossie Long

In recognition of the many years she has worked to create art and archive from Black sound; been a champion and weaver of souls and an uplifter of the invisibilized; for her dedication to collaboration and sharing platform; for her long standing connection to EAP through the fellowship and the Artists Adaptability Circles; for honoring multiplicity and incorporating deep tradition and practices into arts & culture spaces; EAP honors Tossie Long with EAP’s Award of Recognition.

Generational San Franciscan Tossie Long (she/her) is a Grammy-nominated multi-lingual vocalist, international artist, avant-garde ritual sound designer, producer, director, and facilitator. She explores the intersections of sound, culture, and sociopolitical edges, ranging from rock and roll vocals to Afrofuturist immersive productions. Known as “The Bone Rattler,” Tossie practices ceremonial music with a focus on diasporic cosmology. As an ethnomusicologist, she has journeyed to Ayiti, Cuba, Benin, Nigeria, Brazil, and New Orleans, tracing Vodou’s migration.

Tossie is developing Red Clay Sound Haus (RCSH), a sonic-centric immersive project exploring Black sound through themes of Land, Love, Labor, and Legacy. She also curates Sound Haus Excursions, exclusive experiences for ritualistic living. Tossie performs not merely to perform, but to challenge and expand the boundaries of her perceived limits.

Katherin Canton

In recognition of the many years they worked to form and evolve EAP, from Fellow to Network Coordinator to Co-Director to network champion and weaver; for their continued work advocating for equity at the local and state level; for honoring multiplicity and incorporating indigenous practices into arts & culture spaces; and for being an incredible unicorn; EAP honors Katherin Canton with EAP’s Award of Recognition and invites guest speakers to share their experience with their work.

Katherin, a detribalized GuateMayan, is an emerging weaver, a student of spiritual herbalism, a cultural organizer, a caregiver, a spreadsheet and checklist enthusiast, and a facilitator of magic. They have 15+ years of providing community-centered program management, organization and fund development, impact evaluation and storytelling. They co-create healing containers for leadership development. We’re so happy to be recognizing their amazing contributions to the SF Bay arts and culture community.

Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, PHD, MPP

In recognition of the many years Angela has worked with EAP to ground our fellowship program in intention and encouraged our work toward honoring multiplicity and incorporating indigenous practices into arts & culture work, EAP honors the scholar, cultural leader, and EAP Alum and invites guest speakers to share their experience with her work.

Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, PHD, MPP is the Executive Director of LIDERAMOS, a National Latino leadership development organization. She is a contemporary healer holding and guiding strategic change built in self-worth to regenerate radical compassion for a new world of equity, sustainability, and wonder. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement and leading organizations, she strives to be a leader in these times of survival. As a policy advocate and researcher, she served as the Director of Operations for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, and co-founded the National Forum for Healthcare Executives, the Asian HealthCare Leaders Association. She also served as the Program Director of the Center for Metropolitan Chicago Initiatives of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Recognizing the possibilities at the intersections of education, spirituality, and personal development, she completed her doctorate in transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In response to the global pandemic, she is a research associate with Latino Policy Forum and a volunteer with The National Coalition of Latinos Against COVID-19. She is a specialist in the effective communication of pluralities of knowledge across cultural and organizational borders. She serves as a council member of Danza de la Huitzilmeztli and Danza de Luna Xinachtli Meztli, both transterritorial Mexica ceremonial practices.

Kanyon Sayers-Roods

Ohlone & Chumash, artist, consultant

In recognition of the many years Kanyon has worked with EAP to hold space and share platform for Native/Indigenous voices and support our efforts toward strong allyship, EAP honors the artist/activist and invites guest speakers to share their experience with her work. Following the offering of award Kanyon will lead a group discussion on cultural competency and recognition.

Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.

“I am Ohlone & Chumash – California Native Woman. I am a creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world, Catalyst of decolonizing conversations. Contemp/Traditional Artist, Native Representative, Consultant, Advocate of Truth in History, Multimedia Artist, “Coyote”, T.E.K educator, and much more – Let’s Talk”