TURNING BODY BAGS INTO ART

Seattle based artist Abigail Echo-Hawk, a public health researcher for the Seattle Indian Health Board and a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. When her workplace requested personal protective equipment during the Corona pandemic, they were sent a box of body bags. This left Echo-Hawk feeling like the U.S. government didn't value the lives of Native Americans.

Echo-Hawk transformed one of these body bags into a traditional Native ribbon dress. It's since been featured in Vogue and will appear at the Indigenous Film and Arts Festival in Colorado later this year.

Read the full article about Echo-Hawks amazing work here

SOURCE:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/04/20/abigail-echo-hawk-ribbon-dress
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/when-they-gave-her-body-bags-instead-of-ppe-she-used-them-to-make-a-healing-ribbon-dress/