BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) – A Bush Fellowship recipient plans to open an art center for youth on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.
The Bismarck Tribune reports psychologist Tami Jollie-Trottier plans to open the facility in a building owned by her parents in Belcourt in northern North Dakota. She says it will have a focus on youth and look at "enhancing cultural identity.''
Jollie-Trottier was picked by the Bush Foundation this year as one of 24 fellows from North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Each fellow gets up to $100,000 over one to two years.
Since her daughter's birth five years ago, Jollie-Trottier has written and painted as a way of healing from a traumatic experience in childbirth. She aims to help share the healing by encouraging youth to try art. She also plans to provide art supplies with fellowship money.
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Information from: Bismarck Tribune, http://www.bismarcktribune.com