After two years of mentorship, collaboration, and creative work, the community project Weaving Our Pride will culminate this March with the unveiling of two youth-created Pride robes: a Ravenstail robe and a Chilkat robe.
Developed in partnership with the Zach Gordon Youth Center, Weaving Our Pride brought together Native and non-Native youth, queer and straight youth, cisgender and transgender youth, allies, and young people of many identities to sit side by side and learn the traditional art of Northwest Coast weaving. Working alongside mentor weavers — the majority of whom are queer — Rae Mills, Hanna Schempf, Ricky Tagaban, Laine Rinehart, and Melina Meyer, youth participants completed both a Ravenstail robe and a Chilkat robe on site at the youth center.
📷 Sydney Akagi
