Cyril Assiniboine Cyril Assiniboine, a Saulteaux born in 1959 on the Long Plain First Nation community near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, dramatically captures the essence of the powwow dancer and the elaborate regalia of his culture. Since 1982 the artist has been associated with The Wah-sa ...more

Leland Bell was born in 1953 at Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario; he was raised there and in Toronto and graduated from Laurentian University in Sudbury where he majored in Native Studies. His spirit name is Bebaminojmat, he is of the Loon Clan, and is a “second degree” member of the Three ...more

Distinctive, very distinctive. That's the creative talent of Terry McCue as he evolves into one of Canada's preeminent artists. Born at Curve Lake First Nation north of Peterborough, Ontario, Terry explores his Aboriginal heritage with patience and a subtle strength. Colour and texture emerge ...more

Eddy Munroe is from Garden Hill, the Island Lake region of Northern Manitoba ...more

The November, 2007 exhibit marks Maxine Noel's third one-artist showing at The Wah-sa Gallery in the last six years. Maxine, who paints under her given Aboriginal name, Ioyan Mani, "walks beyond", merits this dedication and enthusiasm as she continues to expand and broaden her creative talent as a ...more

Daphne Odjig, and her husband Chester Beavon, have been very close and dear friends of The Wah-sa Gallery since its inception. We first met Daphne Odjig when she resided in Easterville where Chester was the community development officer. She sold us two paintings that day, the first acrylic legends ...more

Ted Oster replied "Liking long walks on the beach", and then he chuckles when asked how he wants to be described on our web site. Ted Oster is an Oji-Cree, born in 1973 in Fort Francis ON where he spent most of his youth growing up on the islands of Northwestern Ontario in a place called Rice ...more

Gayle Sinclaire is a Northern Cree from Norway House, Manitoba, whose work focuses primarily on women and children, affirming the importance and strength of women and children in the Aboriginal culture. She celebrates life and with her Little People series (The Amemekeswak or also known as the ...more

Clemence Wescoupe a Saulteaux from Long Plain First Nation, Manitoba, has been in association withe The Wah-sa Gallery since 1976. ...more

Originally from Garden River First Nation just outside Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, David resided much of his adult life in Winnipeg, MB. The distinctive graphic style of David intertwined with nature and the remnants of a culture bound up with his people's history is marked most often by a ...more

Linus Woods (b. 1967) Linus Woods is a Dakota/Ojibwa from the Long Plain First Nation community in Manitoba. He is primarily self-taught, but also has studied art at Manitoba’s Brandon University and worked closely on projects with Jane Ash Poitras. Curator Leanne L’Hirondelle of Rabbits on the ...more

Terry, originally from Sioux Lookout, northwestern Ontario, has a distinctive style of working in acrylic and fashioning his images of what he strongly identifies as the essence of his Aboriginal heritage. He lives in Winnipeg with his young family ...more

Rick Beaver is an Ojibway from Alderville First Nation, on Rice Lake, southern Ontario. He has been painting professionally for almost 30 years and is an avid conservationist which stems from his academic and work experience as a wildlife biologist. He is the proprietor of Sweetgrass ...more

Susan Ross devoted much of her artistic career to painting Inuit and Aboriginal people from her home base in Thunder Bay, Ontario. While The Wah-sa Gallery is devoted to Canadian Aboriginal art, there are exceptions. And Susan Ross is one of those exceptions. She had a real feeling for Inuit and ...more

Norval Morrisseau, the Father of Canadian Woodland Aboriginal art, is a well-documented and acclaimed artist from the Thunder Bay area of northern Ontario. In the 1970s he worked primarily in the Thunder Bay, Winnipeg and Toronto areas before moving to the West Coast in the late 1970s and has spent ...more

The Wah-sa Gallery has a selection of Iroquois soapstone carvings, including soapstone smudge bowls. ...more

Metis wood carver from Winnipeg ...more

The Wah-sa Gallery first began in 1976 at 331 Donald St. in Winnipeg when we purchased the gallery begun by Daphne Odjig and her husband, Chester Beavon. The original owners of the gallery were Janice Cardigan, Arlene Rosine and Gary Scherbain. ...more

A Saskatchewan artist who has been represented in Winnipeg by The Wah-sa Gallery since the fall lof 2007. "Kevin's work, often depicting mother and child with floral motifs, emphasize the importance of family, tradition and respect for his culture and heritage...These paintings are a tribute to my ...more

Carl Ray, a worthy member of the Indian Group of Seven, which included Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Alex Janvier, Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness and Joe Sanchez, had two main styles of art--His traditional Woodland form with the legends, iconic images of life lines and the nature of which he was ...more

An Oji-Cree originally from Winnipeg, she is now a member of a First Nation in Saskatchewan She has been quoted as saying "painting was something that I often thought of when I was a small child, but I felt that it was not the right time. I believed I had to wait until I could find something that ...more

"Copper Thunderbird" is the Asnihnabe name given to the "Father" of Woodland Aboriginal art when he recovered from an illness early in his adult life. Norval Morrisseau has an incredible number of internet sites citing his life and times 1932-2007 and we invite you to insert his name into any ...more

Steve Smith is a potter from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario ...more

An Ojibway from Buffalo Point in the southeastern corner of Manitoba, Eddy was a founding member of the Second or Native Group of Seven which also included Daphne Odjig, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Jackson Beardy. Alex Janvier and Joe Sanchez. Eddy died in ...more

A founding member of the 1973 Indian Group of Seven which also included Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy, Carl Ray, Joe Sanchez and Eddy Cobiness, Janvier hails from Cold Lake Alberta. One of his first exhibits was "Treaties...) along with Daphne Odjig and Jackson Beardy at the ...more

Roger is one of the fine Woodland Aboriginal artists who emerged from the Sandy Lake, Ontario in the 1970s and 1980s ...more

While The Wah-sa Gallery is devoted primarily to Canadian Woodland Aboriginal art, there are times when we are able to feature works of art outside our expressed mandate ...more

Angelique Morasty, a birch bark biter from Northern Manitoba up until her death in the mid 1990s, is credited with preserving this tradition of biting a design into birch bark. Pat Bruderer from Northern Manitoba has been associated with The Wah-sa Gallery since the late 1990s. Ilona Stanley from ...more

Jasyn Lucas is a welcome new addition to The Wah-sa Gallery (Sept. 2008) Jasyn resides in Thompson Manitoba, but is s member of the Mathias Columb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan). Jasyn grew up in Thompson where he graduated from R. D. Parker Collegiate in 1997. While in Thompson his earliest influences ...more

In 2008 Linus started portraying his main themes in mixed oil and acrylic on 10 x8 wrapped canvases. We present a wide selection of these images on our web site. ...more

With the group show, "from tHERe perspective, Jackie Traverse was introduced to The Wah-sa Gallery. The show in February, 2009, also included Jo Cooper, Lee Claremont, Leah Dorian and Simone McLeod. Jackie started visiting the gallery in 2002 and then she entered the Fine Arts program at the ...more

"I grew up in a French-Canadian household in the middle of a very monarchist, Anglo-Saxon neighbourhood in Toronto...I felt displaced..." "It wasn't until my late 20s when I discovered my direct connection to the Algonquin people and the Metis voyageurs. "As I explored more about my ancestry, I ...more

With his new approach to life and art, this young man from The Pas in Northern Manitoba began dealing with The Wah-sa Gallery in 1979 and soon became a gallery favourite. Following in the minimalist style of Benjamin Chee Chee and Clemence Wescoupe, Isaac traveled Canada and the United States ...more

Garry emerged on the scene of Woodland and Plain Aboriginal artists in the mid to late 1970s and worked with and mentored such artists as Sweetpea, Cyril Assiniboine and Isaac Bignell. Garry Meeches, originally from Long Plains First Nation , has been living in Conneticut for the last 20 ...more

An Ojibway from Sandy Lake ON, Bart has long practiced his art in a traditional Woodland style. Along with Robert Kakegamic, also of Sandy Lake, the two have collaborated on many project as well as art cards and calendars. ...more