Maxine noel aboriginal artist

Ioyan Mani ... to walk beyond. A visionary elder gave Maxine Noel her Sioux name shortly after birth, and walk beyond she does. Maxine Noel is Santee Oglala Sioux, born on the Birdtail Reservation in south western Manitoba.

The eldest of eleven children, she spent her early childhood amidst the positive reinforcement of a loving family on a quiet reserve. There she learned how to draw.

Maxine noel aboriginal artist paintings

Residential school brought with it the struggles of submersion of the native spirituality and culture. Maxine feels that strength, enrichment and positive results have come from that struggle.

While working, for over a decade as a legal secretary in Edmonton and Toronto, she continued with her art, becoming a self taught artist.

During her time as a coordinator at the Native Friendship Centre in Northern Ontario, she was encouraged by a fellow native artist to show her art work to a Toronto art dealer. Her career as an artist had begun. Since that first one person exhib