Allen Angeconeb (Amhoo)
(b: 1955 – 2017). Lac Seul First Nation artist and print maker; Anishnwabe (Ojibwa); Woodlands style.After residential school, he vowed to go back to his traditional ways. As an artist, his work became known across Europe.Ahmoo became well-known for his printmaking, and for more than a decade he would scrape together enough money to spend six months of the year traipsing around Europe, showing and selling his work. “Ahmoo was brave. But he wasn’t brazen at all,” says Sharon Godwin, director of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, where Ahmoo had exhibitions and workshops. “He was quiet, respectful. You wanted to get to know him.”
