Native Fashion Now Exhibit Featured on WGBH

Photo courtesy Amanda Kersey/WGBH

SALEM, MA - This Friday, Open Studio with Jared Bowen, WGBH’s local arts program, will feature the Peabody Essex Museum’s Native Fashion Now exhibit.

The episode will air Friday, January 8 at 8:30pm on WGBH 2.

The Native Fashion Now exhibit runs through March 6 in the Special Exhibition Galleries at the Peabody Essex Museum.

The exhibit features nearly 100 works spanning the last 50 years exploring the vitality of Native fashion designers and artists from pioneering Native style-makers to today’s maverick designers making their mark in today’s world of fashion. Also examined is how non-Native designers adopt and translate traditional Native American design motifs in their own work, according to museum officials.

The exhibit features contemporary garments, accessories and footwear spanning a variety of genres and materials.