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Patricia
M. Ningewance
My art has
been mostly for me. "It is in art that we learn to survive. In
art we find spirit which sustains us when we feel that we are
merely doing our job, and it is in art we find our way home."
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Louis
Ogemah
Louis was born
July 8, 1962 somewhere near his mother's home town of Sioux Lookout,
Ontario. Louis is an Anishnaabe of the Ojibwe's of Lac Seul First
Nation, Ontario. He attended the Cecilia Jeffery Residential School
in Kenora, Ontario in the late sixties and early seventies.
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Sharon
Hall
Sharon
Hall (White Wolf Woman) is an Ojibwe Artist from the Brown Bear
Clan. Many
of the images portrayed represent messages that she had received
in her dreams and they tell of connectivity between the past,
present and the future.
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Victor
Tssessaze
An Aboriginal
from Lac Brochet, Victor began painting at a very young age. Later
as he began to develop his skills as an artist, he was influenced
by the traditional way of life and the stories of Aboriginal elders.
These teachings were a great influence for Victor not only in
developing himself as an artist but to develop his spiritual sense.
Victor received a Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award
in 1995.
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Gwen
Reid
Gwen
Reid was born in Smith Falls, Ontario and grew up in the City
of Winnipeg. Gwen was adopted and raised by an Aboriginal woman
from Six Nations Reserve. Gwen spent her youth in the City of
Winnipeg.
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Iris
Lauzon
Iris displayed
various articles in a recent fashion show presented in Winnipeg
on November 22, 1998. She is a member of the Aboriginal Fashion
and Designers Association and is a certified clothing designer.
She expresses her artistic talent thought both traditional and
contemporary designs.
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Walter
Veito
Practicing
visual independence as an artist working with many different kinds
of mediums. Walter enjoys the culture of mixed races as much as
being part of the Aboriginal art scene. Walter started developing
his type of works in 1990. Walter wanted to create a body of works
on the pow-wow circuit throughout the different areas of North
America.
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Tammy
Beauvais
Tammy
is a Mohawk originally from Kahnawake Quebec. Since the age of
thirteen, Tammy has been designing Aboriginal clothing. Her work
has been greatly influenced by her families connections to the
Longhouse, where tradition ways of life, customs and culture have
never been broken.
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Anthony
J Martin
Anthony is
from the Sandy Bay First Nation. He is self-taught carver and
artist. At the age of five, he won a Christmas stamp contest organized
by the Canada Post Office. The image of an elfish Santa appeared
on a five-cent stamp.
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Albert
Roulette
Born on the Sandy Bay Reserve from
a family of nine Albert has been painting and making jewelry out
of Lake Manitoba shells for four years. It took him about a year
and a half of experimenting to come up with the style of jewelry
he is making now. Carving out of soapstone, bone, antler and wood.
What Walter creates relates to his Saulteaux (Ojibway) culture,
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