Always in Fashion: Indigenous Design Languages and the Reshaping of Fashion Across Turtle Island with Amber-Dawn Bear Robe
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
7:00 pm Eastern/4:00 pm Pacific
FREE Webinar, Open to All

Join us this July for a vibrant and thought-provoking conversation where Indigenous art history, fashion, and material culture converge in a celebration of Native design and creative sovereignty. This program features curator and art historian Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) and her talk, "Always in Fashion: Indigenous Design Languages and the Reshaping of Fashion Across Turtle Island."

Drawing from her curatorial work and her scholarship as Assistant Professor of Native & Indigenous Art History and Material Culture at Parsons School of Design in New York City, Bear Robe explores her landmark exhibition, Always in Fashion, currently on view at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Her work illuminates the richness of Indigenous design languages and the ways Native designers have continually shaped and redefined the fashion landscape across Canada and the United States, lands also known as Turtle Island. Her research positions Indigenous fashion not as a peripheral influence, but as a vital, living force at the intersection of art, design, identity, and cultural expression.

This event offers a meaningful opportunity to reflect on how Indigenous designers and scholars are transforming our understanding of fashion history, material culture, and creative self-determination.

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