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For Immediate Release - December 16, 2011

 

Mt. Pleasant, Michigan The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways and Exclusive Sponsor, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., concluded the 2011 Artist-in-Residence Mentoring Program this December. The 2011 Artist-in-Residence Mentoring Program was a great success for the Center. Four workshops were held focusing on four different mediums including black ash basketry, classic animation cel painting, beadwork, and pottery. There was an overwhelming response from the community for both the adult and youth workshops. Through these workshops, the Ziibiwing Center taught Woodland Indian art education to a total of 76 adults and 1,054 youth over the course of the year.

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 2013.

The Ziibiwing Center would like to announce the Exclusive Sponsorship of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., for the 9th Indigenous Peoples Art Market. The Indigenous Peoples Art Market is a national juried Art Show and will be held October 5 - 7, 2012 in the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort's Entertainment Hall. We expect over 50 American Indian Artisans from around the country to participate in the show.

The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 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, meeting rooms, and gift shop. 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 Eagle's Landing Casino located in Standish, Michigan.

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