DEBASSIGE, Blake 1956-

PERSONAL: Born June 22, 1956, in Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada; married Shirley Cheechoo (a painter, storyteller, and writer); children: one son. Education: Attended Laurentian University.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Kasheese Studios Art Gallery, West Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.

CAREER: Kasheese Studios Art Gallery, West Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, owner and operator. Painter, graphic artist, printmaker, and wood carver; exhibition curator; member of art selection juries. De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theater Group, founding member and production designer. Exhibitions: Solo exhibitions include work at Samuel Zacks Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, various other venues in Ontario, and Geronimo's Studio, Munich Germany; work also represented in group shows, including exhibitions at Royal Ontario Museum, Riverwest Art Centre, Milwaukee, WI, Province of Ontario Legislative Building, Budapest Ethnographic Museum, United Nations Art Gallery, Gallery of the American Indian, New York, NY, and Woodland Cultural Center; work collected throughout Canada, including at Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, Assembly of First Nations, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canadian Museum of Civilization, and Ojibwe Cultural Foundation.

WRITINGS:

(With Ahmoo Angeconeb and Roy Thomas) The Art of the Anishnabek: Three Perspectives, Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1996.

Contributor to exhibition catalogs. Contributor to periodicals, including American Indian Quarterly.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998, pp. 152-154.

periodicals

Anthropologica, Volume 25, number 1, 1986, Valda Blundell and Ruth B. Phillips, "If It's Not Shamanic, Is It Sham?"

other

Spirit Speaking Through (documentary television film), Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 1985.*