(September 24, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA)—The Autry Museum of the American West announces the PST ART x The Autry: Fashioning Indigenous Futurism runway show at Getty. The fashion show will celebrate the artists’ blend of innovative couture, ancestral knowledge and future-forward style. 

Organized by fashion curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, five leading Indigenous fashion designers—Jason Baerg, Orlando Dugi, Jontay Kahm, Caroline Monnet and Jamie Okuma—will present their work on a runway at Getty along with a special AR activation by Virgil Ortiz. 

“The PST ART x The Autry: Fashioning Indigenous Futurism runway show at Getty is a revolutionary moment for all involved and fashion arts, carving out space for Indigenous designers—North America's original haute couture creators. This event redefines the future of fashion by fusing Indigenous knowledge with cutting-edge design, pushing the boundaries of American style. It's a bold statement of Indigenous innovation, reclaiming and reshaping the fashion world for new generations,” says Bear Robe.

On September 30, this one-night-only event will bring to life looks on view at the Autry’s PST ART Art & Science Collide exhibition Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology.

Future Imaginaries explores the rise of Futurism within contemporary Indigenous art as a means of navigating colonial trauma, in the present, while imagining alternative futures and advocating for Indigenous knowledge systems as vital to achieving social justice in the present and sustainable communities going forward. 

The exhibition comprises approximately 58 works, including 48 loans, many directly from the artists. At least nine new works have been commissioned or created specifically for the exhibition, including the site-specific installations ReVolt 1680/2180: Sirens and Sikas by Virgil Ortiz; Three Sisters, Regeneration by Skawennati; and Glitch in Perpetual Time by X.

Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology is open from September 7, 2024, to June 21, 2026. 

For more information, please visit theAutry.org/PSTART.

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