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SUMMARY:Bishop Etsy Cohort Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you a Native artisan or craftsperson with a successful offline business but haven’t yet found your footing online?Maybe you’re selling on platforms like Facebook\, but not fully tapping into the power of a thriving online marketplace? \nIf you’re ready to create or grow your online presence—or even just explore whether selling online is right for you—please join us in Fallon for an Information Session on the IDRS Native Artisans Etsy Cohort. \nThe IDRS Acorn Project offers this unique opportunity for Native artists and makers to expand their market reach and increase income by selling on the Etsy platform. The cohort will be led by IDRS Acorn Project staff\, Lynn Wilson and MaryBeth Timothy—both successful Native makers who have grown their businesses through online sales. \nParticipants selected for the three-month cohort program will receive: \n\nPersonalized support to set up an Etsy store\nProfessional graphic design and copywriting assistance\nHands-on training and guidance\nA $200 grant\nPromotion through the IDRS Acorn Project’s social media channels\n\nThis program is designed to help you launch or elevate your online business with the tools and support you need to thrive. \n📅 Information Session Details:\nDate: Tuesday\, June 10thTime: 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Pacific)Location: Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural CenterAddress: 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA 93514 \nTo register\, please click the “going” button above and complete the form. \nAll Native artisans\, craftspersons\, entrepreneurs\, and community members are welcome. If you know someone who could benefit from this session\, please share the invitation! \nHere is a link to a flyer for this event for distribution within your community. \nDownload\nFor more information\, please contact Paige Sills\, IDRS’ Acorn Project Owens Valley Cohort Community Manager at paige.e.sills@gmail.com or at 808-430-0946.  You can also reach out to Lynn Wilson\, Microenterprise Development Specialist at the IDRS Acorn Project\, at lynn@idrsinc.org. \nProgram Guide:  \nPaige Sills is an enrolled member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe and proudly serves as the Community Guide for the Native Artisans Collective in the Owens Valley region. Born and raised on the Bishop Paiute Tribe Reservation\, where she still resides\, Paige brings a deep-rooted connection to her community and culture. \nIn her role as Community Guide\, Paige supports fellow Native artisans by sharing resources\, encouragement\, and guidance as they grow their creative businesses. She helps foster connection and collaboration within the local maker community\, drawing on her own experience as a multi-disciplinary artist to inspire and uplift others on their journey into online selling and creative entrepreneurship. \nAbout your presenters: \nLynn Wilson (Cherokee) serves as the Microenterprise Development Specialist for the IDRS Acorn Project. She has championed small businesses and entrepreneurs for 20 years\, working with tribal communities across Indian Country. Lynn’s work has focused on entrepreneurial training\, business counseling\, economic and demographic\, and social research related to economic development. For the past four years\, she has been on staff at IAIA teaching  Entrepreneurship under the Business and Entrepreneurship certificate program. Lynn received her M.B.A. and Professional Certification in Entrepreneurship from Cameron University and is a certified market research specialist through the National Center for Economic Gardening. She lives in Hulbert\, OK\, with her husband\, Clint. \n \nMaryBeth Timothy is an award-winning Cherokee artist.  MaryBeth and her husband operate MoonHawk Art LLC\, an art business in Muskogee Oklahoma that specializes in Native American and wildlife art. \nMaryBeth creates new original art and\, through sublimation printing\, offers her and her husband’s images on a variety of items\, such as ceramic decorative tiles\, coffee mugs\, cuff bracelets\, and t-shirts.  While MaryBeth primarily sells through venues such as gift shops and art markets\, she has been able to expand and reach a worldwide market through her Etsy store. \n  \nThis workshop is being funded in part by the Bishop Paiute Tribe\, the USDA Rural Development\, the US Small Business Administration\, the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, and the Elevate Initiative. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://www.nativebiz.org/event/bishop-etsy-cohort-informational-session/
LOCATION:Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshoe Cultural Center\, 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA\, 93514\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mark Thompson":MAILTO:mark@idrsinc.org
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SUMMARY:Financial Skills for Native Communities (OVIWC)
DESCRIPTION:Whether you want to start a business\, get a loan to expand a business\, buy a car\, or pay off debt\, knowing how to manage your money and credit is the first step to gaining control over\nyour financial future. Building Native Communities is a financial literacy program developed by First Nations Oweesta. Through this program you will learn to make informed financial decisions for yourself\, your family\, and community while maintaining traditional values. \nThe IDRS Acorn Project\, in partnership with the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission\, will present Financial Skills for Native Communities on Sunday\, October 16th. 2022 from 9 am to 4 pm.  Registration is open to all community members and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information. \nThe workshop will be located at the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center on 2300 W. Line Street in Bishop\, California. \nFor more information\, please contact the community host\, Kyndall Noah\, Communication Specialist\, at 760-873-3300 or at kyndall@oviwc.com.   You can also reach out to Mark Thompson\, Executive Director\, at the IDRS Acorn Project at 916-482-5800 or at mark@indiandispute.com. \nThis workshop is sponsored\, in part\, by the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission\, USDA Rural Development\, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, Small Business Administration\, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation\, and the MUFG Union Bank Foundation. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://www.nativebiz.org/event/financial-skills-for-native-communities-oviwc/
LOCATION:Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshoe Cultural Center\, 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA\, 93514\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Workshops
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SUMMARY:How to Start a Side Hustle (OVIWC)
DESCRIPTION:Have you always wanted to start a small business but figured it would take too much time or be too risky?  Are you worried that starting a business costs too much money?  We have a suggestion for you.  How about taking some of your skills or your hobby and turning it into an income generating operation to earn a little extra spending money? \nThe IDRS Acorn Project presents a one-day training on how to start a Side Hustle.  A Side Hustle is a job or business that brings in extra money beyond one’s main time requirement whether that be a job\, being in school\, or even being a stay-at-home parent.  How to Start a Side Hustle teaches how to set up a new income stream with your existing talents\, skills\, and capital. \nHow to Start a Side Hustle not only teaches the basic skills of becoming an entrepreneur\, but it also teaches basic business and goal setting skills that will also assist you in your roles as students and employees. Each participant who completes the Side Hustle program will walk away with a workbook that includes all the processes taught during this program that will result in a completed business plan that can be launched shortly after the in-person classroom time. \nThe IDRS Acorn Project\, in partnership with the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission\, will present How to Start a Side Hustle on Saturday October 15th. 2022 from 9 am to 4 pm.  Registration is open to all community members and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information. \nThe workshop will be located at the Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Cultural Center on 2300 W. Line Street in Bishop\, California. \nFor more information\, please contact the community host\, Kyndall Noah\, Communication Specialist\, at 760-873-3300 or at kyndall@oviwc.com.   You can also reach out to Mark Thompson\, Executive Director\, at the IDRS Acorn Project at 916-482-5800 or at mark@indiandispute.com. \nThis workshop is sponsored\, in part\, by the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission\, USDA Rural Development\, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, Small Business Administration\, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation\, and the MUFG Union Bank Foundation. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://www.nativebiz.org/event/how-to-start-a-side-hustle-oviwc/
LOCATION:Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshoe Cultural Center\, 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA\, 93514\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Workshops
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SUMMARY:Exhibiting Your Art: How to Approach Galleries\, Museums\, and Cultural Centers
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED\nDoing new stuff is scary.  Trying to break in to the art world when there are so many great  artists is hard.  Even though you have been producing art that everybody loves\, you’re not sure if it’s right for a museum.  Would a gallery take a chance on me? \nMelissa Melero a fine artist specializing in mixed media has not only been exhibiting at galleries and museums in Nevada\, California and throughout the US\, but she has been curating exhibits of Native artists in the Great Basin region for the last decade.  She has the tips and tricks that will help you not only be prepared when you are ready to exhibit but also how to know where’s best for you and how to approach that best place.  In this workshop you will learn how to: \n\nFind the right space for your art\nNetwork in the community to find a way in\nPrepare and safely ship your artwork to the museum or gallery for exhibition\nPrice your work to increase the likelihood it sells\nAnd the do’s and don’ts of the whole exhibition experience\n\n\n\n\nThe IDRS Acorn Project\, in partnership with Great Basin Native Artists\, and the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center\, will present Exhibiting Your Art: How to Approach Galleries\, Museums\, and Cultural Centers on Wednesday\, October 5th\, 2022 from 10 am to 3 pm.  The workshop will be located at the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center at 2300 W. Line Street in Bishop.  Registration is open to all community members in Owens Valley and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information. \nFor more information\, please contact the community host\, Tara Frank at the Cultural Center at 760-873-8844 or tara.frank@bishoppaiute.org.   You can also reach out to Mark Thompson\, Executive Director\, at the IDRS Acorn Project at 916-482-5800 or at mark@indiandispute.com. \nAbout your presenter: \nMelissa Melero-Moose was born in San Francisco\, CA in 1974 and spent most of her childhood living in Reno\, Nevada. She is a Northern Paiute enrolled with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe with ties to Fort Bidwell Paiute\, California. Melissa holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Santa Fe\, NM and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Fine Arts from Portland State University\, Portland\, OR. \nHer works are a part of the permanent collections of the Autry Museum\, Los Angeles\, CA; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts\, Santa Fe\, NM; Lilley Museum\, University of Nevada; Nevada Museum of Art\, Reno\, NV and School for Advanced Research (IARC)\, Santa Fe\, NM. \nShe is currently exhibiting regionally and nationally as an individual artist and with the GBNA art collective. Her influences are imagery found in the Great Basin landscape\, petroglyphs\, beadwork\, and basketry from the Indigenous tribes of Nevada and California. \nMelissa currently lives with her family in Hungry Valley\, Nevada working as a professional artist\, contributing writer for First American Art Magazine and founder/independent curator of the Great Basin Native Artists (GBNA). \nFor more information about Melissa\, please visit her website at www.melissamelero.com \nThis workshop is sponsored\, in part\, by the Bishop Paiute Tribe\, Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center\, Great Basin Native Artists\, USDA Rural Development\, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, Small Business Administration\, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation\, and the MUFG Union Bank Foundation. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://www.nativebiz.org/event/exhibiting-your-art-how-to-approach-galleries-museums-and-cultural-centers/
LOCATION:Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshoe Cultural Center\, 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA\, 93514\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221004T100000
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SUMMARY:Preparing for an Art Market: From the Pow Wow Booth to Indian Market
DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED\nThe art market has changed.  No longer do galleries hold all of the keys to success in the art world.  Opportunities for artists to share and sell their work have exploded.  And nowhere is this more evident that the popular of art markets. \nMelissa Melero is a seasoned artist who has many years of selling at local markets\, pow wows\, museum exhibitions even at the prestigious Santa Fe Indian Art Market.  Melissa will share everything she has learned over the years to help you learn how to make art markets a worthwhile investment in your time\, energy\, and money.  In this workshop you will learn how to: \n\nPromote yourself before the event\nSet up your booth \nShowcase your products\nCreate special offers to attract\nAnd so much more!\n\n\n\n\nThe IDRS Acorn Project\, in partnership with Great Basin Native Artists\, and the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center\, will present Preparing for an Art Market: From the Pow Wow Booth to Indian Market on Tuesday\, October 4th\, 2022 from 10 am to 3 pm.  The workshop will be located at the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center at 2300 W. Line Street in Bishop.  Registration is open to all community members in Owens Valley and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information. \nFor more information\, please contact the community host\, Tara Frank at the Cultural Center at 760-873-8844 or tara.frank@bishoppaiute.org.   You can also reach out to Mark Thompson\, Executive Director\, at the IDRS Acorn Project at 916-482-5800 or at mark@indiandispute.com. \nAbout your presenter: \nMelissa Melero-Moose was born in San Francisco\, CA in 1974 and spent most of her childhood living in Reno\, Nevada. She is a Northern Paiute enrolled with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe with ties to Fort Bidwell Paiute\, California. Melissa holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Santa Fe\, NM and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Fine Arts from Portland State University\, Portland\, OR. \nHer works are a part of the permanent collections of the Autry Museum\, Los Angeles\, CA; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts\, Santa Fe\, NM; Lilley Museum\, University of Nevada; Nevada Museum of Art\, Reno\, NV and School for Advanced Research (IARC)\, Santa Fe\, NM. \nShe is currently exhibiting regionally and nationally as an individual artist and with the GBNA art collective. Her influences are imagery found in the Great Basin landscape\, petroglyphs\, beadwork\, and basketry from the Indigenous tribes of Nevada and California. \nMelissa currently lives with her family in Hungry Valley\, Nevada working as a professional artist\, contributing writer for First American Art Magazine and founder/independent curator of the Great Basin Native Artists (GBNA). \nFor more information about Melissa\, please visit her website at www.melissamelero.com \nThis workshop is sponsored\, in part\, by the Bishop Paiute Tribe\, Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center\, Great Basin Native Artists\, USDA Rural Development\, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development\, Small Business Administration\, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation\, and the MUFG Union Bank Foundation. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://www.nativebiz.org/event/preparing-for-an-art-market-from-the-pow-wow-booth-to-indian-market/
LOCATION:Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshoe Cultural Center\, 2300 W. Line Street\, Bishop\, CA\, 93514\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Workshops
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