Canada Post honours Daphne Odjig

Wikwemikong artist Daphne Odjig’s art is being featured on three new Canada Post stamps.
“Daphne Odjig’s colourful palette evokes strength and power,” said Jim Philips, Canada Post’s director of stamp services. “Canada Post is proud to add the work of this respected Canadian artist to our Art Canada series.”
The three new stamps, which feature three of Odjig’s original acrylic pieces — Spiritual Renewal (1984), Pow-wow Dancer (1978), and Pow-wow (1969) — will be unveiled Feb. 26 in Kelowna B.C.
Born in 1919 to a father of Native descent and an English war bride mother, Odjig's art was influenced by her life experiences. She realized her love of fine arts during her school years on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island and received critical acclaim in 1964 for a series of ink and pencil sketches of the Cree people of Manitoba.
A founding member of the Professional Native Indian Artists Association in 1973, along with Alex Janvier and Norval Morrisseau, Odjig received the Governor General's Laureate, Visual & Media Arts award in 2007, Canada’s highest honour in the field of visual arts.
Odjig’s art has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Belgium and Japan, including at more than 30 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions.