Dressed To Thrill
AMBER-DAWN BEAR ROBE IS BUSY. SERIOUSLY BUSY. WHEN THE ART CURATOR AND NATIVE art historian takes precious time to talk about the upcoming Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show she’s producing for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts in Santa Fe, she’s also in the middle of working on a fashion show with Beyond Buckskin at Vital Spaces during the Gathering of Nations, orchestrating an art opening, and being a professor at Institute of American Indian Arts, where she teaches Native American art history, contemporary Native art, history of photography, and history of Indigenous fashion. Additionally, she’s juggling writing an essay about the Indigenous printmaking movement and organizing an editorial shoot for a fashion feature in Native American Art Magazine.
“I do work a lot. It’s my life,” Bear Robe says matter-of-factly. You might find her working around her adopted city of Santa Fe in any number of places where she holes up to get things done: her SWAIA office, her IAIA office,
