Fri, Jan 10
|Tucson Desert Art Museum
The REDress Project
The REDress Project focuses around the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada, created by artist Jaime Black.
Time & Location
Jan 10, 2020, 7:00 PM – Dec 27, 2020, 7:00 PM
Tucson Desert Art Museum, 7000 E Tanque Verde Rd, Tucson, AZ 85715, USA
About
According to the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), Arizona had the third highest number of cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in the United States. Tucson accounted for the majority of these cases.Raising awareness for this crisis, The REDress Project by Métis artist Jaime Black is an art installation of empty red dresses that evokes a presence through the marking of absence. Black draws attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Native women. Since 2011, The REDress Project has become an international symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement throughout Canada and now in the United States.Exhibition made possible by a grant from AZ Humanities.
Image: The REDress Project at Acadia University in 2015. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.