The Artist-in-Residence Mentoring Program is a complimentary program to the Indigenous Peoples Art Market and was created in 2007 to provide Woodland Indian Art education, technique, tools, and cultural instruction to the next generation. The mentoring programs included activities for classroom groups and adult workshops. The next Artist-in-Residence Mentoring Program will occur in 2011.

The Ziibiwing Center would like to announce the Exclusive Sponsorship of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. for the 8th Indigenous Peoples Art Market. The Indigenous Peoples Art Market is a national juried Art Show and will be held October 1 - 3, 2010 in the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort's Entertainment Hall. We expect
over 50 American Indian Artisans from around the country for the show. 

The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways in Mount Pleasant, Mich. is the Midwest's Premier American Indian Museum. Established in 2004, the Ziibiwing Center is a distinctive treasure created to provide an enriched, diversified, and culturally relevant educational experience through its award-winning Diba Jimooyung (Telling Our Story) permanent exhibit, changing exhibits, research center, Ojibwe language immersion room, gift shop, Wi-Fi coffee & media lounge, and meeting rooms. The Ziibiwing Center is a non-profit cultural center and museum belonging to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan who also own Michigan's only four diamond casino resort, the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort, and the Saganing Eagles Landing Casino located in Standish, Mich.

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