1994 - 2003 | Remembering Inkameep, The Beginning of a New Story

• Anthony Walsh dies at age 95

  News clipping: "Beloved teacher dies" View Englargement

  Anthony Walsh, late 1970s View Englargement

• Members of the Osoyoos Indian Band including former Day School students of Mr. Walsh, and descendants and families of former students no longer alive begin research to reconstruct the story of the Inkameep Day School. This research is done in collaboration with the Osoyoos Museum and the University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology.

  Inkameep elders and student research assistants preserve the art and the stories from the Inkameep Day School as part of the Osoyoos Museum, the Osoyoos Indian Band, and the University of Victoria's Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project. View Englargement Zoey Baptiste works on the conservation of the Osoyoos Museum's Inkameep Drawing Collection. View Englargement

  Irene Bryson (left) and Jane Stelkia (right) with greeting card sent to the children of Inkameep by Mr. Walt Disney. View Englargement Irene Bryson and Jane Stelkia visit the site of the Inkameep Day School. The building no longer exists, but plants that grew around its perimeter, identify its former place. View Englargement

• The Vancouver Art Gallery hosts the exhibition titled Drawing the World. The exhibition of drawing from the Renaissance to the Present from around the world features 36 drawings from the Inkameep Day School.

  Chief Clarence Louie makes opening remarks at the Vancouver Art Gallery's opening for Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters. View Englargement

  Members of the Osoyoos Indian Band and the Penticton Indian band attend the opening of Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters at the Vancouver Art Gallery. View Englargement Banners hang outside the Vancouver Art Gallery during the exhibition Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters. A detail of an Inkameep drawing is seen on the right side of the first panel from the left. View Englargement

  Irene Bryson (left) and Jane Stelkia (right) the last surviving members of the original group of child artists from the Inkameep Day School are honored for their attendance at the opening at the art gallery. View Englargement