About the Artist
Native American Artist – Stone Sculptor and Painter
Dennis Henry-Shawnoo
Dennis Henry-Shawnoo is a member of the Kettle and Stoney Point First Nations located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
He spent his childhood growing up on the reservation where he received an awareness of what it means to be a Native American and how important it was to preserve his culture. Dennis spent many hours with elders, listening to them tell stories of life in their early days and watched them carve fishing lures, axe-handles and a variety of other useful items. He became very good at making bows and arrows as well as wooden carving of wildlife he experienced on his daily excursions into the surrounding woods.
Dennis attended school on-reserve, then completed Elementary School in Forest, Ontario and then graduated from the North Lambton Secondary School. While attending a Graphic Design course at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario, he realized his talents as an artist and the importance of art as a means of communication.
Dennis recently became an Honors Graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, where he received an Associates of Fine Arts Degree in both the Two-Dimensional (painting) and Three-Dimensional (sculpture) Arts. While Dennis attended the Institute he was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, the first ever formed at the Institute. He also was mentioned on the Deans Honors List in 1997 and 1998.
Dennis is pursuing a career in the Fine Arts Field and thru his artwork he hopes to pass on to the Generations to come, some of the information he learned about yesterdays and today’s First Nations people.
Some of his accomplishments to date include a sculpture being chosen as a monument to designate a major archaeological discovery and other pieces of his art are in private collections throughout Canada, USA, Australia and Germany.
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