Autry After Hours | Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Fashion

Join the museum for a fashion-focused tour of their latest exhibition Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology  by curator Amy Scott.

Schedule:

5:30 p.m. | Food and Beverages Available for Purchase

6 p.m. | Museum Galleries Open

7 p.m. | Fashion Tour by Amy Scott

9 p.m. | Museum Closes

About the Tour:

Indigenous peoples have been adorning themselves with custom clothing and regalia for centuries in ways that broadcast cultural identity, aesthetics, and continuity with ancestral traditions, in which materials, patterns, colors, and forms are carefully chosen for their visual, spiritual, and kinetic properties. Many of the works in the exhibition combine historical materials with newer ones including silk, organza, embroidery, tulle, and titanium. Some also feature recycled or found materials such as industrial laminate, computer components, mylar, and geodes that speak to their relationship to their environment.

When worn by Indigenous people and of Indigenous design, these clothes speak to the ongoing significance and resilience of certain aesthetic and cultural traditions while carrying Indigenous knowledge forward, from the high fashion runways of today into outer space and beyond, or wherever the future might take us.

Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit: pst.art

Additional support for Future Imaginaries is provided by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, the Ethnic Arts Council, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Mildred E. and Harvey S. Mudd Foundation, Caryll and William Mingst, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.