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Spilyay Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon
November 10, 2005
Artists:
workshop
teaches
.marketing
(Continued from page 1)
"I wanted to make sure they
leave with something tangible, so
the outcome of this workshop
is each artist gets a CD of their
images and of their documents,
and they can then revise them
as needed at a later time, or
they can build a portfolio,"
Wong said.
Maria Godines, a director at
the Small Business Development
Center, said she has been learn
ing how to create tribal-thcmcd
artwork since she was 5 years
old.
She shows her works on a
Website she's had up since last
May, but she hasn't yet tried to
market any of her work. She
said the workshop helped.
"For me this was very impor
tant because (Wong) specializes
in the marketing part, the pho
tos, how to document your
work, the artist statement and
resume," Godines said.
"What I will get out of this is
not only going to help me as an
artist, but it will also help me as
a business coach at the Small
Business Development Center,
1 in helping the artists that come
into the center.
She said having a written
statement and a portfolio will be
helpful when artists apply for
grants to help fund their
projects.
"Some artists have had exhib
iting experience," Wong said.
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"Ifwlj.-'make ,the checks, out
to the vendors, that's all the tribe
needs as far as accountability, if
the tribe were audited," Atencio
said.
Recipients are responsible for
the financial records of the use
of the funds granted, and they
have to report the grants when
they file their federal and state
Upward Bound:
great opportunity
for students
(Continued from page 2)
While on the Boulder cam
pus, students take courses that
serve as a sort of preview of
the student's upcoming academic
year. Along with the academic
component is a counseling com
ponent and college-and-career
prep classes.
"The overall intended effect
is to make the students' transi
tion to college a lot easier,"
Jones said. In fact, he said, Up
ward Bound isn't necessarily for
students already academically
gifted and destined for college.
He said the student best
suited for Upward Bound are
those moderately successful in
school, passing most of classes
with B's and C's.
"It's normally a student in
terested in moving on, who ex
presses an interest, who wants
to go to college or get some train
ing after high school," he said.
"It's not necessarily for the star
students."
The highly motivated "star
"Some have not; Regardless of
where they arc in their own pro
fessional development, these are
basic tools that will help them
further their careers."
The artists worked indepen
dently, putting their information
together.
"And I've shown them pro
fessional portfolios, so they
know how and what should be
contained in a portfolio," Wong
said.
She said the portfolio is
"kind of your master version
of your life and your work,"
and that the artist-in-business
can use parts of it, be it writ
ten information or digital pic
tures, to submit to galleries or
potential vendors, with the
understanding one shouldn't
submit any more than he or
she needs to send.
The artist's statement is sepa
rate from the artist's biography,
Wong said. The first difference
is that the artist's statement is
written in the first-person, while
the biography is written in third
person form.
The statement, she said, "is
about the work, and maybe the
philosophy behind it and influ
ences." "And there are those who
believe art should speak for it
self, but art is about communi
cation and there's different lev
els of access to that informa
tion," she said.
"Visually is one form. Writ
ten is another form. Verbal is
another form. And so if it's
about communicating, all those
elements will just enhance the
viewer's experience.
tax forms in 2006. Recipients
also must stay in contact with
the Small Business Development
Center to keep the center in
formed of the progress of their
businesses.
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, . Without proper reporting
and proof of proper business
use, a grant can be converted
into a business loan, payable at
6.5 percent interest.
Nine of the 1 1 grant recipi
ents are based in Warm Springs,
while two are elsewhere. One of
them, Desmond Wheeler, has a
landscape business in Tucson,
students," he said, are already
involved in college preparatory
activities and go after more
mainstream opportunities.
A great perk of Upward
Bound is that in addition to be
ing on the University of Colo
rado campus, they are within an
hour of Denver, where they can
see major league baseball and
soccer games, go to a big
waterpark and a Six Flags
amusement park near Denver
and a Shakespeare festival.
Another perk of Upward
Bound is that students actually
earn money while participating.
If they satisfactorily com
plete monthly homework assign
ments, the students are each sent
$20. Jones said the assignments
take less than an hour to com
plete and are in place mostly to
keep the students connected to
the program and in communi
cation. But students are not
charged for their room and
board at the Colorado campus
and they are paid a stipend for
participating while they're there.
Additionally, Jones said, the
Warm Springs Education Com
mittee has picked up the tab for
the students' transportation from
"For those artists who don't
want to talk about the work,
that's just limiting their audience
somewhat. Cultural references
and traditions, patterns, may not
be as obvious to outsiders. So
it's about why they do what
they're doing. It can be short or
it can be long depending on how
you choose to express your
self." The biography is written in
third-person, she said, because
that lends "a different level of
authority" about the artist's in
dividual development.
"It helps a viewer under
stand that this comes from a
certain place. Often we don't
find artists statements or bios
together in one heap, and I'm
asking them to extract that as
two separate pieces, because
they can have two separate
functions."
The statement in the first
person works best in a publica
tion like a newspaper because a
reporter can lift a quote from
the statement and more easily
directly quote the artist.
In addition, the artists create
a resume, a more bare-bones
fact sheet about their work and
their pieces.
"The resume is more of a
documentation of their experi
ence in the art world, and you
can see just by glancing over the
years how long they've been
active as an artist, or by looking
at the venues where they've
shown their work you can see
what kind of geographical base
they have as an artist," Wong
said.
"Usually it's focusing on ex
Ariz.
Wanda Van Pelt, who owns a
business called Traditional Trea
sures that sells traditional Na
tive art, said at the meeting she
planned to buy buckle blanks
j from Fort Hall, Idaho, "because
they put out the best buckle
blanks."
"I congratulate all of you for
being eligible for this fund, and
hopefully, knowing the hardship
in trying to get this fund unfro
zen will make us work harder
at keeping the program going,"
Hintsala said.
Oregon to Colorado.
He said students and parents
can contact him at Madras High
School (475-7265), and he
would gladly send out applica
tions. He said he has plans to
visit the Warm Springs Commu
nity Center to meet with inter
ested students next month be
fore Christmas break.
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hibition history, while looking
also at publications, and maybe
professional experience."
It should include what the
artist does within his or her own
community, as a teacher or a
leader or a craftsman.
"If one hasn't prepared that
information before, the challeng
ing thing is to try to collect it all
and put it down in print. But it's
a living document," Wong ssid.
"Nothing is ever the end. You
can revise it and you can change
it as your life changes, and as
your art changes."
Marcia Macy said she's
worked with different kinds of
media but her favorite is
beadwork, and she said she's still
learning. She was watching as
Eileen Spino, threaded a dolls
traditional-style hat.
"I'm learning from F.ileen,"
Macy said. "I made my first
with wild colors. She started
me out with two colors and I
went nuts. I still have more to
learn from her because I'm
just a beginner."
She said she would like to
start to develop her skills and
start a business, as well as open
a store that offers fabric and
threads.
"I do a lot of cross-stitch,"
she said. "I kind of combine the
traditional arts and the contem
porary media together.
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Timber:
discussion of
affects on wildlife
(Continued from page 7)
Forty percent of each wild
life management zone should
retain cover characteristics,
while the other 60 percent is al
located for forage.
All of the treatments in this
project will have affects on wild
life resources. Some of the af
fects may have negative impacts
in the short run while others
may be positive, l or example,
precommcrcial thinning will re
duce the density of trees in an
area, and thereby reduce hiding
cover for big game animals. The
treatment will also allow more
sunlight to reach the forest floor,
which will increase production
of forage plants.
It has long been known
through research and intuition
that closing roads is beneficial
to deer, elk and other wildlife.
( )pen roads have no known ben
efit to wildlife species. Research
conducted over the past decade
clearly indicates that vehicular
traffic has a negative impact on
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are often recommend as mitiga
tion to offset the impacts of a
timber sale, resulting in a net
benefit to wildlife.
The possibility of selling big
game hunting permits to non
Indians came up during the
scoping meetings as a potential
source of revenue. The wildlife
biologist said commercial big
game hunting opportunities have
been considered for many years
and were evaluated during the
IRMP II planning process. To
date, the Confederated Tribes
has not allowed trophy hunting
other than by enrolled tribal
members, but this could be con
sidered as an option to generate
revenue in the future.
In regards to planting certain
plants favored by wildlife it was
noted that seed mixes used to
be more palatable to big game.
Unfortunately not all of the past
scedings were of native plants.
In recent years there has been a
shift to native seed mixes or ster
ile seed for temporary soil stabi
lization and these plants have
some tangible benefits to wildlife.
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edition of the Spilyay.)
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