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Provide Participants with knowledge of Peyote Stitch, Loomwork, Flat Stitch and Lazy Stitch. Participants will choose their projects they wish to bead including moccasins, turtles, lizards, chains, medallions, pouches and bags.
Dates & Times are Sunday's 11:00 AM-3:00 PM and Monday's 4:00 PM-8:00 PM:
Beading 101:
Lazy Stitch:
Peyote Stitch:
Completing Peyote & Loom Projects:
Loom Beading Technique:
Completing Flat & Lazy Stitch Projects:
Flat Stitch:
Please have participants take into consideration any projects they want to enter for the art exhibition.
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Participants will learn the creation stories and the historical content of quillwork pre-1800s. They will also learn to identify plants for natural plant dyes. Participants will learn the quillwork techniques of platting and back stitch/sewing quills.
Dates:
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, March 9, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, March 23, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 20, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
Sunday, May 11 2025, 11:00am-3:00pm
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants.
All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
What You’ll Learn:
Granny Squares: Learn to create the classic square motif, which can be used individually or joined to form larger projects.
Hats: Discover how to crochet simple and stylish hats, including working in the round and adding finishing touches like pom-poms or embellishments.
Blanket Making: Understand how to combine your granny squares into blankets or learn seamless techniques for crocheting larger blankets from scratch.
By the end of the class, you’ll have the skills to create custom crochet pieces, from cozy accessories to stunning home décor. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your crochet skills, this class is perfect for anyone ready to craft beautiful, handmade items. Join us and stitch your way to creativity and relaxation!
Dates and Times, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM:
Sunday’s, February 9 & 23, 2025: Class 1
Class 1: Basics of crochet - chain, single crochet stitch, understanding crochet terminology, UK vs US terms - (activity: granny square)
Class 2: Half double crochet, double crochet stitch, how to follow a pattern (activity: making a hat)
Sunday’s, March 9 & 23, 2025
Class 3: Magic ring, working in rounds (activity: stuffed animal)
Class 4: Crochet-along - start larger project (blanket) Following patterns, learning more complex stitches
Sunday’s, April 6 & 20, 2025
Class 5: Crochet along blanket - next segment
Class 6: Crochet along blanket, continued
Sunday’s, May 4 & 18, 2025
Class 7: Crochet along blanket, continued
Class 8: Crochet along blanket - Complete
Provide Participants with knowledge of Peyote Stitch, Loomwork, Flat Stitch and Lazy Stitch. Participants will choose their projects they wish to bead including moccasins, turtles, lizards, chains, medallions, pouches and bags.
Dates & Times are Sunday's 11:00 AM-3:00 PM and Monday's 4:00 PM-8:00 PM:
Beading 101:
Lazy Stitch:
Peyote Stitch:
Completing Flat & Lazy Stitch Projects:
Please have participants take into consideration any projects they want to enter for the art exhibition.
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Participants will engage in various projects, including crafting rawhide belts and boxes, acrylic painting, knife sheaths, bows, and other weapons. The instructor will blend traditional teachings with modern techniques for each project. The program will also include harvesting a buffalo and utilizing all parts to create items such as headdresses, weapons, art, and toys.
Dates and Times, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM:
February 10, 12, 24, & 26, 2025:
Harvest a buffalo and utilize every part during the workshops. Distribute the meat to participants and demonstrate the preparation of hide, meat, and bones. Explore traditional uses, including preparing for Taniga and crafting weapons.
March 3, 5, 17, 19, 24, & 26, 2025:
Continue preparing the hide, skull and begin the buffalo headdress making along with teaching why these headdresses were made. Continue preparing the hide. Research on design and history. Prepping the bones for knives, paintings, and toy making. Continue work on weapons.
April 7, 9, 21, & 23, 2025:
Work on finishing the hide and cutting it for more headdresses.
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
Provide participants with knowledge of how to create detailed applique patterns depicting Lakota designs. These patterns will be sewn onto trade cloth bags or similar material. Any animal templates provided by the instructor are the intellectual property of the instructor. This event will be held at the Whiteclay Makerspace in Whiteclay, NE.
Dates:
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 10:00am - 3:00pm
White Clay Makerspace
Participants will engage in various projects, including crafting rawhide belts and boxes, acrylic painting, knife sheaths, bows, and other weapons. The instructor will blend traditional teachings with modern techniques for each project. The program will also include harvesting a buffalo and utilizing all parts to create items such as headdresses, weapons, art, and toys.
Dates and Times, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM:
February 10, 12, 24, & 26, 2025:
Harvest a buffalo and utilize every part during the workshops. Distribute the meat to participants and demonstrate the preparation of hide, meat, and bones. Explore traditional uses, including preparing for Taniga and crafting weapons.
March 3, 5, 17, 19, 24, & 26, 2025:
Continue preparing the hide, skull and begin the buffalo headdress making along with teaching why these headdresses were made. Continue preparing the hide. Research on design and history. Prepping the bones for knives, paintings, and toy making. Continue work on weapons.
April 7, 9, 21, & 23, 2025:
Work on finishing the hide and cutting it for more headdresses.
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Artspace
The “mixed media with watercolor” workshop is a beginner- friendly art class that combines the versatility of painting with a variety of other mediums, such as collage, drawing and painting. Incorporating other mediums and textures from different materials, adding dimension with collage or use of pen/ink for linework.
Dates and times are Sunday's 11:00AM - 3:00pm and on Wednesday's, 4:00pm - 8:00pm:
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Open for all ages! The Weekly Drum Circle hosted on Wednesdays aims to be a safe-space for anyone wanting to learn or practice singing on and around the drum. Hosted by singer and knowledge bearer Santee Witt, the drum circle welcomes anyone who can make it to the Oglala Lakota Artspace on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm.
This workshop series will be held every Wednesday and will focus on singing Lakota songs on the drum, wether they be traditional songs, prayer songs, sundae songs, powwow songs, or other styles of singing on a group-drum and or/ hand-drum. The teachings and meanings behind these songs will be discussed. A safe place will be held for all ages of participants to receive the opportunity to learn how to sing.
From 7-8pm, attendees of the online Wicaglata Circle via Zoom are able to connect with Tiana, ask her questions, and listen/learn as she gives various lessons and stories about various Lakota songs that Wicaglata/Women singers would sing in ceremony/prayer, social occassions, and every day life.
Tiana Spotted Thunder is a Lakota recording artist from Oglala, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Wicaglata Learning Circle offers a safe space for winyan relatives interested in learning to sing or would like a space to practice singing. Attendees in this women-only circle will get to learn about Wicaglata protocol, societal importance and more!
Virtual/Online
January 3, 2025-February 28, 2025: Celebrate the creativity of Oglala Lakota Artspace workshop participants by visiting the Community Art Exhibit. The displayed pieces were created during the fall 2024 workshop sessions and submitted to the Oglala Lakota Artspace Community Art Exhibition. The exhibit features works in four categories; Youth, Adult, Elder, and OLA Instructors.
First Peoples Fund's two-day trainings give artists real-world tools and detailed resources to navigate the arts industry and become successful entrepreneurs. The training is intended for emerging and seasoned artists alike.
At the training, we will work with you to help you grow your arts business. You will have an opportunity to participate in the following activities:
• Express your personal vision and values that will ultimately become the principal foundation of your business.
• Determine your art marketing, business and financial management abilities using a series of self-assessment tools.
• Budget and establish a successful pricing structure.
• Market your business using variety of approaches and tools.
• Create your mission statement and present your art work.
This program is being offered for free on March 1 & 2, 2025 at 9:00am-4:30pm.
This training is in collaboration with Shingle Springs Rancheria.
As part of the registration process, they will receive your 1)Full Name and 2) City, State, and Zip Code (not your street address).
QUESTIONS?
Contact Jaren Bonillo, First Peoples Fund Program Director, Weaver jaren@firstpeoplesfund.org for more information.
Shingle Springs Rancheria
This workshop series will focus on sewing star pattern baby bags, pot holders, and pillows leading up to creating Star Quilts. Traditional stories and teachings about the historical and cultural significance of stars, star knowledge, and star quilts will be shared with participants as they create their pieces.
Dates:
Sunday February 2, 2025, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday February 3, 2025 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 2, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 3, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 30, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 31, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday April 13, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 4, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 18, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Art Space
Provide Participants with knowledge of Peyote Stitch, Loomwork, Flat Stitch and Lazy Stitch. Participants will choose their projects they wish to bead including moccasins, turtles, lizards, chains, medallions, pouches and bags.
Dates & Times are Sunday's 11:00 AM-3:00 PM and Monday's 4:00 PM-8:00 PM:
Beading 101:
Lazy Stitch:
Peyote Stitch:
Completing Flat & Lazy Stitch Projects:
Please have participants take into consideration any projects they want to enter for the art exhibition.
Oglala Lakota Art Space
This workshop series will focus on sewing star pattern baby bags, pot holders, and pillows leading up to creating Star Quilts. Traditional stories and teachings about the historical and cultural significance of stars, star knowledge, and star quilts will be shared with participants as they create their pieces.
Dates:
Sunday February 2, 2025, 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday February 3, 2025 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 2, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 3, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday March 30, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Monday March 31, 2025, 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Sunday April 13, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 4, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday May 18, 2025 11:00am - 3:00pm
**This registration form is designed to better understand our participants. All of the information you provide is confidential and will only be shared with staff and instructors - not with participants or others. All data from these forms are entered into our data system and are not connected to your name in analysis and presentation of the results in our grant reports and applications. Please help us continue to be able to provide these trainings!
Oglala Lakota Art Space
