FPCC Receives Community-Based Native Arts Grant Award

Fort Peck Community College was recently selected as a grant recipient of the American Indian College Fund’s Community-Based Learning and Sharing Grant.

FPCC was awarded $20,000 for this one-year grant to help support the development and implementation of Native arts community workshops and/or academic courses in traditional Native arts and/or contemporary Native arts.

“FPCC’s Community-Based Native Arts project represents a unique opportunity for community members to participate directly in the revival of some of our traditional cultural art forms. Our ultimate goal is to increase community cultural literacy and cultural ways of knowing by transmitting art forms from one generation to the next.” said Elijah Hopkins, project lead.

FPCC’s project plan goal is to increase the community’s number of traditional cultural arts knowledge keepers within the following areas: drum-making, quilling, bow-making and hide-tanning.

Each of the workshops will be free-of-charge in-person events. All workshops will facilitated by a recognized master artist in their respective field.

The quilling workshop is schedule for Aug. 3-4 and drum-making is scheduled for Aug. 10-11. The bow-making workshop is tentatively scheduled for October and the hide-tanning workshop event date is TBA.

For more information about the project or to register for the workshops, contact Hopkins at ehopkins@fpcc.edu.