Reception: 7 - 11 pm - February 8, 2007
Closing: March 31, 2007

The Treaty 4 Suite Works on paper Gallery 803 is presenting new works on paper by Winnipeg artist Tim Schouten. Part of the ongoing Treaty Suites Project, these new small scale encaustic works, some of which incorporate text are based largely on photographs taken at the two locations where Treaty 4 was signed in 1874. The Cree and Saulteaux of the Qu'Appelle Valley and surrounding regions signed Treaty with Canada at a spot that is now on a residential street in the town of Fort Qu'Appelle in Saskatchewan. Additional Cree, Saulteaux and Stony of the region made Treaty ten days later at Fort Ellice near what is now St. Lazarre, Manitoba. Treaty 4 Territory covers approximately 50,000 square miles of southern Saskatchewan as well as small portions of Manitoba and Alberta. Tim Schouten is represented by Ken Segal Gallery in Winnipeg.