The 2024 Forge Project Fellows were Delbert Anderson (Navajo/Diné), Schon Matthew Duncan (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians), Donna Hogerhuis (Stockbridge-Munsee), Lindsay McIntyre (Inuit), Mikayla Patton (Oglala Sioux Lakota), and Sterling Anthony Schreiber II (Stockbridge-Munsee).

The 2024 Forge Fellowship applications were reviewed by a jury including Natalie Ball (Black, Modoc, and Klamath); A-dae Romero-Briones (Kiowa/Cochiti); Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation); and Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta). The 2024 fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate panel, including Lucille Burr Grignon (Stockbridge-Munsee/Menominee); Marcella Ernest (Gunflint Lake Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior); and Monica Jo Raphael (Anishinaabe-Lakota).

The 2023 Forge Project Fellows were Margeaux Abeyta (Taos Pueblo and Diné), Brent Michael Davids (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape), Lucy Grignon (Stockbridge-Munsee/Menominee), Emily Johnson (Yup'ik), Dr. Suzanne Kite (known professionally as Kite) (Oglála Lakȟóta), and Rachel Martin (Tlingít).

The 2023 Forge Fellowship applications were reviewed by a jury including Ilegvak (Yup’ik), Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee), Jasmine Neosh (Menominee), Brandi Norton (Inupiaq, Kotzebue Alaska), and Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk). The 2023 fellows from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community were selected in a parallel process by a separate panel, including Suzette Brewer (Cherokee), Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Choctaw/Hopi), and Rainer Posselt (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians).

The 2022 Forge Project Fellows were Catherine Blackburn (Dene); Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache); Rainer Posselt (Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans); Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos of The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians); Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation); and Ilegvak, Peter Williams (Yup'ik).

The Forge Project Fellowship 2022 applications were reviewed by a juried panel of six distinguished Native scholars, artists, writers, and former Fellows: Misty Cook, Sky Hopinka, Dr. Rose Miron, Dr. Jolene Rickard, Dr. Meranda Roberts, and Dr. Anton Treuer.

Forge Project's annual fellowship launched with a cohort of four individuals selected by inaugural Director of Education Heather Bruegl (Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee). The 2021 Forge Project Fellows were Chris T Cornelius (Oneida), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), Jasmine Neosh (Menominee), and Brock Schreiber (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans).