Don't miss the HPSfAA Spring Conference and Intertribal Powwow this April!

This conference is being hosted jointly with the Northern Colorado Intertribal Powwow Association (NCIPA).

WHEN: The HPSfAA Conference will start Thursday, April 19 and end Sunday, April 22.
WHERE: The conference will be held in the Lory Student Center. Please visit the HPSfAA website for registration information.

DETAILS: The Keynote Speaker will be Lori Pourier, Executive Director of First Peoples Fund from Rapid City, South Dakota. First Peoples Fund provides technical assistance and business training to native artists, to expand the economic returns from their artistic expressions and to integrate community healing and growth into the work of native artists. Lori Pourier will discuss serving native artists through entrepreneurship, collaborative partnerships, and community.

POWWOW: The annual powwow will take place April 21-22 in Moby Arena at CSU. An invited panel of native dancers and artists from the NCIPA powwow will take part in this conference. Conference registration includes free admission to the NCIPA Powwow. For a complete schedule of events, please visit the NCIPA website.

In its broadest form, artistic expression is central to community development, health and wellbeing, economic opportunity, and cultural revitalization. Applied Anthropologists are both audience and artist in crafting collaborative research, program implementation, and ethnography. This conference will explore the work of practitioners and academics in honoring the role of artists and artistic expression in diverse communities of concern. The conference theme includes literary, performing, and visual arts, as well as practical arts of collaboration and communication. Among the areas of artistic expression to be considered are: individual and community health through the arts; artistic expression for environmental sustainability; arts as an engine for community and economic development; methodologies of artistic expression, including photo voice, Illustrator, and new accessible visual technologies;entrepreneurship, micro credit and arts; education and the arts; and artistic expression for cultural self-determination.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact: jaime.king@colostate.edu.

We look forward to seeing you!