JAIME BLACK 

Jaime Black is a Metis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Canada. She created The REDress Project to give a platform to those women and girls now silent. Through the installation, she is bringing to light the ongoing pressing issue of the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women across North America. 

        The dresses “call in the energy of the women who are lost,” Black says. “People notice there is a presence in the absence.” She uses red dresses because “red is very sacred and powerful. It relates to our lifeblood and that connection between all of us.”

         Supporters have donated more than 400 dresses to the project. Since 2009, Black has installed collections of them at dozens of locations throughout Canada. 

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Source: https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/redress-project