{"id":1529,"date":"2011-04-04T00:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T20:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2011-04-14T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:20:04","slug":"having-fun-with-the-art-of-business-with-first-peoples-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/having-fun-with-the-art-of-business-with-first-peoples-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Business & First People’s Fund – Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The "All My Relations" gallery where the First People's Fund business seminar is held<\/p><\/div>\n

Like I mentioned in my last blog about “Museums: I thought they were like haunted houses”, during the weekend of March 24th through the 26th.\u00a0 I was one of the grant awardees to receive the First People’s Fund “Artist in Business Leadership”<\/a> program.\u00a0 For three days, several Native American artists from around the country met for a marketing seminar in Minneapolis at the new “All Our Relations” gallery\/coffee shop facility.<\/p>\n

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Justin Huenemann, Director of the Native American Community Development Institute (nacdi.org) explains the American Indian Cultural Corridor in Minneapolis - one of the largest blocks of land owned by Native Americans in the nation; no, not reservations, but actual land-owners for self-governance<\/p><\/div>\n

I was impressed with the information from the presentations by FPF with our hosts, the Native American Community Development Institute.\u00a0 Visit their wesbite to find out more information about the NACDI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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First People's Fund Program Coordinator Miranne Walker explains FPF's goals and objectives to Stephanie, wife to artist Paul Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

The following are images of this year’s FPF artists.<\/p>\n

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Ivory & whalebone Yupik carver Alfred "Tillie" Gosuk from Togiak, Alaska<\/p><\/div>\n

All the artists were asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation on where we were from, what kind of work we do, and how we were going to use the funds from our First People’s Fund grant.\u00a0 Since I was sitting at the very end of the table, I was the first to do my presentation.\u00a0 I am fortunate to have taken a Marketing class and an Introduction to Digital Media class at the Institute of American Indian Arts during the Spring Semester 2010.\u00a0 I took pride in presenting some of my marketing tools that I created in my classes:\u00a0 my first brochure, my business cards, and my power point presentation which kind of tells it all.<\/p>\n

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Basket-weaver Carol Emarthle-Douglas from Bothell, Washington explains her basketweaving technique and materials used to create the exquisite basket in the Power Point<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite part about the entire seminar was watching my fellow artists introduce themselves and their work.\u00a0 I am always interested in meeting other artists and seeing their work.\u00a0 (This was one of the main motivators as to why Preston Singletary and I started the biennial “Northwest Coast Artists’ Gathering” in Juneau, Alaska back in 2006.)\u00a0 I was thoroughly impressed with the quality and artistry of each individual’s work.\u00a0 I am proud of my fellow artists.\u00a0 It was an honor to be rubbing shoulders with some of the most influential artists of their communities.\u00a0 I introduce them here:<\/p>\n

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Cheyenne ledger painter and jeweler Alaina Buffalo Spirit from Billings, Montana<\/p><\/div>\n

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Northwest Coast artist Paul Peterson, Sr. from Hoodsport, Washington specializes in making bentwood boxes <\/p><\/div>\n

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Beadwork and parfleche artist Lauren Good Day Frank from Bismarck, North Dakota<\/p><\/div>\n

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From Hays, Montana, Roni Stiffarm presented the ancient art of drummaking<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the few Ash bark basket weavers, Kelly Church from Hopkins, Michigan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wasco Warm Springs artist Lillian Pitt from Portland, Oregon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Birch bark basket maker Sandy Peterson from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin<\/p><\/div>\n

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Menominee singer-songwriter Wade Fernandez from Keshena, Wisconsin <\/p><\/div>\n

To find out information about First People’s Fund there is a part two to this blog entry entitled with the same name, but includes “Part II” to the title…AND there are additional photographs…check it out in next week’s blog entry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like I mentioned in my last blog about “Museums: I thought they were like haunted houses”, during the weekend of March 24th through the 26th.\u00a0 I was one of the grant awardees to receive the First People’s Fund “Artist in Business Leadership” program.\u00a0 For three days, several Native American artists from around the country met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,4,27],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels-adventures","category-honoring-others","category-northwest-coast-art-shows-and-art-exhibits","category-marketing","tag-first-peoples-fund"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}