The REDress Project was originally an art installation by Jaime Black in 2012 in which she collected and displayed a collection of red dresses to focus attention on the staggering number of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Red dresses continue to be symbols of these tragic losses.
Jaime Black is a Metis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg. Her statement on www.redressproject.org states: “Through the installation I hope to draw attention to the gendered and radicalized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through absence.”
October 4th is a day to remember murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, and their courageous families and friends. National Inquiry into MMIWG.
Painting by Truth and Reconciliation Community – Bobcaygeon member Ann Davidson