Clay Muwin River
Grant Collaborator • Workshop Facilitator
MEET CLAY
Clay Muwin River is Co-Director of Programs and a Lead Teaching Artist at the Mariposa Arts Council, offering a powerful blend of cultural insight, educational leadership, and deeply relational facilitation. Their work spans classrooms, community programs, and public spaces—supporting youth, adults, and diverse communities through art and dialogue.
Clay works in close relationships with culture keepers, Elders, artists, and tribal partners to support resilience, wellness, and intergenerational knowledge sharing. Grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and informed by decades of lived experience, they bring particular depth to curriculum development, cultural arts revitalization, and values-based learning. A cultural arts activist and accomplished muralist, poet, and storyteller, Clay weaves creativity with care and accountability.
During the Art, Nature & Wellness Program’s immersive cohort in March 2026, they will facilitate a two-day journey using an Indigenous Theoretical Framework GONA to Create a healing, culturally grounded, community-driven retreat in nature where participants begin with a personal or communal question—approached “much like ceremony”—through mindfulness, collective learning, art, land connection, and community building. Clay will also offer a two-day Raw-Hide Rattlemaking workshop April 18-19, 2026.