Each series or workshop will focus on a particular medium or skill, such as birch bark, basketry, loom-weaving, quilting, embroidery or other embellishment techniques. Participants will learn about the craft and its importance or use in this region. In this way, the programming will highlight and invigorate community connections through experimental opportunities.

Says Nokomis Paiz, Watermark staff member, “What we see in providing multi-faceted, multi-cultural creative circles is a significant opportunity to build community with ethnic diversity as the infrastructure of the circle. We want to have an open door that encourages people to come to the circle as they are able, without a sense of obligation or having to sign up and commit to a workshop. People’s lives are busy. COVID changed how we think and act in the world. We want to be accessible and consistent in our availability.”