Native Artist - Joe Sanchez
Member of the Indian Group of Seven
Native artist, Joe Sanchez, an American draft dodger, was an accidental blip on the Canadian native art scene but was nevertheless a founding member of the Indian Group of Seven. He had left his country and was trying to make a living in Winnipeg about the time Daphne Odjig and her husband, Chester Beavon, were opening up the Warehouse Gallery in the early 1970's. They more or less took him under their wing so he became a member of the Professional Indian Native Artist's Inc association by default.
Gary Sherbain, who had been a reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press at the time the group started, says that while attending the Spirits of the Sun exhibition in Phoenix in the late 1990's he met Joe who seemed to be not only alive but doing well. Gary didn't mention what had happened in the meantime or what he was doing now.
