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SUMMARY:Polymer Clay Mask Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Learn the process of using polymer clay to create a mask. Participants will learn Michelle’s techniques for forming clay and the tools she uses to best help her process. Every participant will leave with their own handcrafted polymer mask. \nThis class is ideal for folks who are interested in mask creating using non-traditional mediums. \nMuseum-provided materials and instruction are included with a $30 fee\, payable online during time of registration. \nStudents should purchase before class begins on December 13th: \n\nApron\, or clothes that can get messy\nClay tools\n1 Polymer Clay block per person (Museum will provide one block of white polymer clay\, feel free to purchase more if you want specific colors)\n1 Exacto knife per person\nClay tools\nSomething egg-shaped like a rock\, egg foam ball per person\n(Optional) Notetaking materials.\n(Optional) A snack and/or water bottle. Filtered water is available in the building.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/polymer-clay-mask-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Learning,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20241130T140000
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SUMMARY:Assemblage/Collaging Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 30 from 2pm-4:30pm\, explore the freedom and collaborative nature of art using a myriad of materials and methods.\n\nParticipants should bring materials they are willing to share (old magazines\, a piece of cardboard\, recycled or found paper\, leaves\, bubble wrap\, newspaper\, etc.) and materials for their own use only (a photo\, specific text\, etc.).\n\nWorkshop leader Isabella Saunooke grew up in Sylva and now lives in New York. She believes in art as a spiritual practice—a way to connect with the inner and outer world.\n“I believe that by using provided and shared materials to create a collage\, we are allowing ourselves to freely create\, with no expectation of what the final product should be\,” she shares. “We allow ourselves to capture a specific feeling or desire for the moment in time because that alone is enough to create something.”\nThis workshop\, held in MotCP’s Multipurpose Room in the Education Wing\, is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/assemblage-collaging-workshop/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People – Education Wing
CATEGORIES:Community Learning,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20241028T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20241028T193000
DTSTAMP:20260616T132151
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SUMMARY:Family Connections: Where Do I Begin? Wolftown Community Genealogy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On October 28 from 5:30pm-7:30pm at Wolftown Community Club\, join Museum of the Cherokee People Genealogist Robin Swayney (EBCI) to learn about how to trace your family’s personal history. In a workshop crafted especially for the Wolftown community\, Robin will share techniques and tools for starting your own genealogical research. \nThis workshop is for members of Cherokee’s Wolftown community—stay tuned for more community-specific research workshops\, coming soon!
URL:https://motcp.org/event/family-connections-where-do-i-begin-wolftown-community-genealogy-workshop/
LOCATION:Wolftown Community Club Building
CATEGORIES:Community Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20241028T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20241028T183000
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SUMMARY:Genealogy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Museum of the Cherokee People’s genealogy staff invites the Wolftown community to learn how to conduct research into your own family tree. This event is open to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians community. \nTo learn more about genealogy services at Museum of the Cherokee People\, please visit the Genealogy page of our website.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/genealogy-workshop/
LOCATION:Wolftown Community Club Building
CATEGORIES:Community,Community Learning,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240920T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240922T140000
DTSTAMP:20260616T132151
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SUMMARY:Confluence: An Indigenous Writers' Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! Confluence: An Indigenous Writers’ Workshop returns for its second year. Created in partnership with author and MotCP board member Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, the series of workshops offers citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians access to high-quality writing instruction from the world’s top Indigenous writers at no cost. \nTwo tracks are offered during Confluence: Christine Day (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe)\, author of the acclaimed middle-grade novel We Still Belong\, leads a track focused on Young Adult Fiction. Calling For A Blanket Dance author Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee Nation\, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma) will instruct participants in the art of Literary Fiction. Each track will foster a welcoming environment for creative expression\, discussion\, and exchange. Space is limited\, and registration is required. \n \nMeet the Workshop Leaders\n \nChristine Day (Upper Skagit Indian Tribe)\nChristine Day is a citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Her first novel\, I Can Make This Promise\, was a best book of the year from NPR\, as well as a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book\, and an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book. Her second novel\, The Sea in Winter\, was a Top 10 Indie Kids’ Next selection\, a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award\, and an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book. She also wrote She Persisted: Maria Tallchief\, a biography in Chelsea Clinton’s book series about inspirational women. \nHer most recent book\, We Still Belong\, was released in the summer of 2023. In this warm hug of a novel\, award-winning author Day assures readers that even with all the very real problems they may face\, they are worthy\, their voices matter—and they belong. \nChristine lives with her family in the rainy and resplendent Pacific Northwest. \n \n \n\nOscar Hokeah (Cherokee Nation\, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma)\nOscar Hokeah is a regionalist Native American writer of literary fiction\, interested in capturing intertribal\, transnational\, and multicultural aspects within two tribally specific communities: Tahlequah and Lawton\, Oklahoma.  He was raised inside these tribal circles and continues to reside there today. He is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from his mother (Hokeah and Stopp families)\, and he has Mexican heritage from his father (Chavez family) who emigrated from Aldama\, Chihuahua\, Mexico. Oscar’s debut novel was recently longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nHe holds an M.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma\, with a concentration in Native American Literature. He also holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)\, with a minor in Indigenous Liberal Studies. He is a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA\, and also a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Hokeah has written for Poets & Writers\, Literary Hub\, World Literature Today\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/confluence-an-indigenous-writers-workshop/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Learning,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240801T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240801T160000
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Workshop with Loren Waters (Cherokee Nation\, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma)
DESCRIPTION:Step into the realm of film and storytelling with award-winning filmmaker Loren Waters (Cherokee Nation\, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma). Participants will embark on a captivating journey through Loren‘s emergent career and delve into her recent works\, gaining invaluable insights into the dynamic world of filmmaking. In an immersive experience\, Loren ignites creativity and collaboration through an engaging storytelling activity. \nThis community learning opportunity is open to participants aged 15-22\, with preference given to Indigenous participants/aspiring filmmakers. Space is limited and advance registration is required.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/storytelling-workshop-with-loren-waters-cherokee-nation-kiowa-tribe-of-oklahoma/
CATEGORIES:Community Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240713T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240713T160000
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop for Cherokee Artists
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, industry professionals will work with participants to give them the tools to showcase their work online and maintain an online presence. This opportunity is open to enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and presented by Museum of the Cherokee People in collaboration with Mountain Bizworks. \nSchedule\n10am-12:30pm: Optimizing Your Online Presence: Websites\, Online Sales\, & Communications (with LOAM Marketing)\nThis seminar will define the main pillars of a successful website\, demystify SEO (search engine optimization)\, and explore best practices for setting up and maintaining a webshop. At the close of this segment\, seminar participants will have a clearer understanding of their next steps towards a vibrant online presence\, and the confidence to move forward with tips and tricks in their back pockets. \n12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch (Provided) \n1:30pm-4pm: Simple Product Photography: Creating Effective Product & Promotional Images (with LOAM Marketing)\nThis workshop will focus on the components of successful promotional images and product photos. Whether participants have a DSLR camera or are using a smartphone\, they will walk away with a strategy to optimize their photography set up in their own studios. Participants need to bring a smartphone to the workshop.  \nClick here to register.\nCraft Your Commerce is an entrepreneurial program designed to connect\, elevate and advance creative and craft-centered companies through a series of business training workshops and classes designed by makers for makers. CYC envisions a growing\, engaged\, and sustainable creative community that is a major economic driver to the WNC region.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/professional-development-workshop-for-cherokee-artists/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Community Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240626T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240626T193000
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SUMMARY:Books on the Boundary: The Berry Pickers
DESCRIPTION:Books on the Boundary: A Museum of the Cherokee People Reading Circle is a quarterly book club for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and guests. This summer\, the club has selected The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry). The 2023 novel is a national bestseller\, 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner\, and Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \n“A stunning debut about love\, race\, brutality\, and the balm of forgiveness.” —People\, A Best New Book \nAbout The Berry Pickers\nJuly 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later\, four-year-old Ruthie\, the family’s youngest child\, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother\, Joe\, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. \nIn Maine\, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant\, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition\, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. \nFor readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light\, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth\, the shadow of trauma\, and the persistence of love across time. \n“A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting . . . With The Berry Pickers\, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi’kmaw ancestors.” —The New York Times Book Review \nAbout the Author\nAmanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel\, The Berry Pickers was the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Fiction Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. Her work has also appeared in the Antigonish Review\, Grain Magazine\, the Alaska Quarterly Review\, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, and has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. \nAbout Books on the Boundary\nNew in 2024\, Books on the Boundary: A Museum of the Cherokee People Reading Circle is a quarterly book club that discusses the best fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry written by Indigenous authors. Join us quarterly at the Museum of the Cherokee People Store\, and join our online community for book discussion and selecting future books to read.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/books-on-the-boundary-the-berry-pickers/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books on the Boundary,Community Learning
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T160000
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SUMMARY:Puckertoe Moccasin Making Class\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is full. Please email programs@motcp.org with the subject line ‘Moccasin Workshop Waitlist’ to be added to the waitlist.\n\nOn June 6 from 2-4pm and June 26 from 2-4pm\, learn to make your own mocs in a two-part Puckertoe Moccasin Making Class led by Museum of the Cherokee People Director of Collections & Exhibitions Evan Mathis.\n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to be able to make one pair of plain leather moccasins. The first class will consist of a brief historical overview of puckertoe moccasins\, followed by patternmaking and cutting leather and materials. In the second class\, participants will construct their moccasins.\n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Participants must purchase their own materials: leather (approximately $90-120)\, white latigo soles (approximately $20)\, sharp scissors\, sinew\, a small awl\, lighter\, and size 7 Glover needles.\n\n\n\nRegistration is limited to 10 people. To view the full workshop description and sign up\, please visit https://bit.ly/3QNWusD. If you are unable to successfully register\, the workshop is full.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/puckertoe-moccasin-making-class-part-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People – Education Wing
CATEGORIES:Community Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T160000
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SUMMARY:Puckertoe Moccasin Making Class
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is full. Please email programs@motcp.org with the subject line ‘Moccasin Workshop Waitlist’ to be added to the waitlist.\n\nOn June 6 from 2-4pm and June 26 from 2-4pm\, learn to make your own mocs in a two-part Puckertoe Moccasin Making Class led by Museum of the Cherokee People Director of Collections & Exhibitions Evan Mathis.\n\n\n\nParticipants can expect to be able to make one pair of plain leather moccasins. The first class will consist of a brief historical overview of puckertoe moccasins\, followed by patternmaking and cutting leather and materials. In the second class\, participants will construct their moccasins.\n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Participants must purchase their own materials: leather (approximately $90-120)\, white latigo soles (approximately $20)\, sharp scissors\, sinew\, a small awl\, lighter\, and size 7 Glover needles.\n\n\n\nRegistration is limited to 10 people. To view the full workshop description and sign up\, please visit https://bit.ly/3QNWusD. If you are unable to successfully register\, the workshop is full.
URL:https://motcp.org/event/puckertoe-moccasin-making-class/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People – Education Wing
CATEGORIES:Community Learning
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240524T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Monticello:20240524T193000
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SUMMARY:ᏗᏓᏂᏏᏍᎩ ᎦᏓᏆᏟ Didanisisgi Gadagwatli: A Showcase of Pottery from the Mud Dauber Community Workshop at the Museum of the Cherokee People
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of work by students in the Museum of the Cherokee People’s annual community learning pottery workshop\, led by renowned ceramic artist Tara McCoy (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Didanisisgi Gadagwatli showcases the dedication of a new era of Cherokee artists. \nMcCoy developed her pottery workshop three years ago when she noticed a decline in practicing ceramic artists in the Cherokee community. Compelled to do her part in ensuring that there are future generations of Cherokee potters\, she developed a three-month intensive workshop that invites aspiring potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and other federally recognized tribes to learn all facets of Cherokee ceramics. \nExhibited Artists: Mona Taylor (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Faith Long-Presley (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Steven Long (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Chelsea Hemphill (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Hope Long (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Jake Stephens (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Lori Sanders (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Monique Taylor (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Juanita Paz-Chalacha (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Kaliya Wachacha (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)\, Adelia Crowe (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) \nAbout the Instructor: Tara McCoy (Eastern Band Cherokee)\, graduated from Cherokee High School and furthered her education at Guilford College in Greensboro\, NC.  She graduated with a B.S. degree in Sports Medicine. After graduating\, she returned to the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee\, North Carolina and worked in various programs including Cherokee High School/Coaching\, UNITY Treatment Center\, Dora Reed Daycare and Women’s Health before settling down into a role at Cherokee Choices\, a Diabetes Prevention Program\, for 14 years. She currently serves as the Right Path Leadership Specialist at the Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute where her role is to help develop selfless leaders deeply rooted in Cherokee culture identity and leadership through teaching Cherokee values\, culture\, history\, and language. \nShe is a 2011 Right Path Program Alumni\, a 2011 Remember the Removal Bike Ride Legacy Rider\, founder and supporter of the Cherokee Cancer Support Group\, artist member of the Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual\, Inc. and promotes Cherokee art by organizing and teaching art shows and classes in her community.  A member of the Wolf Clan\, she has a lifetime’s experience in multi-medium Cherokee arts and is dedicated to teaching others both traditional and contemporary forms. \nShe began formally studying pottery\, finger weaving\, and beadwork in high school and has expanded her skills in the area of shell carving in the last four years after studying with renowned shell carver Dan Townsend. She has studied with Tammy Beane of Alabama and admired other Cherokee potters for their work\, such as Joel Queen and the late Amanda Swimmer.  McCoy is inspired by her culture\, Cherokee legends\, and nature as she crafts her designs. Her art has won multiple awards and ribbons in North Carolina and Oklahoma as well as being exhibited in museums across the country. McCoy believes everyone is an artist. She lives in the Birdtown community of Cherokee. \n 
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LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Learning,Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Rivercane Processing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Waylon Long (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) and Museum of the Cherokee People Atsila Anotasgi Cultural Specialist Dylan Morgan (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) to learn how to process (bust\, peel\, and shave) rivercane. This community learning opportunity is open exclusively to enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Space is limited\, and online registration is required. If you are unable to register using the link\, that means that this workshop is full. If you would like to be put on the waitlist please email programs@motcp.org with subject line “Rivercane Processing Workshop Waitlist.”
URL:https://motcp.org/event/rivercane-processing-workshop/
LOCATION:Museum of the Cherokee People\, 589 Tsali Blvd\, Cherokee\, NC\, 28719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Learning
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