07/06/2022 with Amber-Dawn Bear Robe

Published July 8, 2022 at 11:56 AM MDT

Nativescape welcomes Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), the producer of SWAIA’s 9th Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has been drawing visitors to New Mexico’s cultural hub every August to see and buy work, including sculpture and paintings, jewelry, and beadwork from Indigenous artists representing more than 200-plus federally recognized tribes. SWAIA’s Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show is one of the premier showcases for North American indigenous fashion designers in the world. Progressive in the way it presents fashion, it also reflects the style and thoughts of contemporary Indigenous people and is one of the most important cultural moments of the year. Wheelwright Museum Board Member Amber-Dawn Bear Robe is an Assistant Faculty of Art History in the Museum Studies department at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Her curatorial practice which focuses on Fashion, includes a recent exhibition entitled, Art of Indigenous Fashion which was at the IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, two exhibitions in process at the Autry Museum of the American West, CA and the Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada. She was awarded regional Emmys in 2020 and 2021, as the producer for two documentary short films on Indigenous fashion. She is an acting trustee for the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) board.

Nativescape welcomes Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), the producer of SWAIA’s 9th Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has been drawing visitors to New Mexico’s cultural hub every August to see and buy work, including sculpture and paintings, jewelry, and beadwork from Indigenous artists representing more than 200-plus federally recognized tribes. SWAIA’s Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show is one of the premier showcases for North American indigenous fashion designers in the world. Progressive in the way it presents fashion, it also reflects the style and thoughts of contemporary Indigenous people and is one of the most important cultural moments of the year. Wheelwright Museum Board Member Amber-Dawn Bear Robe is an Assistant Faculty of Art History in the Museum Studies department at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Her curatorial practice which focuses on Fashion, includes a recent exhibition entitled, Art of Indigenous Fashion which was at the IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, two exhibitions in process at the Autry Museum of the American West, CA and the Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada. She was awarded regional Emmys in 2020 and 2021, as the producer for two documentary short films on Indigenous fashion. She is an acting trustee for the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) board.