Jamie Black

Jaime Black is a Métis artist who uses new media, installations and multi-media performances to create dialogue on issues of social, political and environmental urgency.

Her most well-known work - The REDress Project - has generated discussion on the impact of colonialism, racism and misogyny faced by Indigenous women, and has inspired a nationwide movement, mobilizing the broader public to call for an end to violence. Over the past five years, the artist has hung over 600 donated red dresses in public spaces nationally and abroad. The Project is on permanent display at The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, who has listed Black as one of five women who should be household names in Canada.

Her current project focuses on Cree communities devastated by hydro-electric development. In the same way that the red dresses confront viewers with the enormity of loss, Dust helps the audience to visualize the scope and scale of destruction in Northern Manitoba, and to grapple with its human impact.

Nominated by: Mentoring Artists for Women's Art

View all the nominee submissions at CBC Manitoba Future 40.