| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Farron Callihoo started making art as a child. He studied Graphic Design for two years at Grant MacEwan College (now Grant MacEwan University) in Edmonton, AB. Throughout the 1980s, his painting and drawing related to First Nations themes and was exhibited through juried exhibitions of the Alberta Indian Arts and Crafts Society and Peace Hills Trust. In 1987, he was awarded first runner up of the Asum Mena Alberta Native Art Festival. In 1990, he established his residential and commercial painting business and since then has been making art in his spare time. His drawing, “The Forgotten Ones of the Past” was in 2010 featured in “Altagraphic: Drawings from the AFA Collection,” an exhibition curated by the Alberta Society of Artists, for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. |