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Muscogee Fashion Rooted in Identity is presented for Bright City in
partnership with Dashboard and NewTown Macon, with support from
Macon Magazine as a contributor for Macon Fashion Week. This exhibit was
also funded thanks to an anonymous donor of the Community Foundation
of Central Georgia. This is the 7th edition of the Bright City series.
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his exhibition presents authentic
designs made and modeled by
Muscogee (Creek) people, captured
through the vision of Macon-based
photographers. It celebrates fashion as both
art and identity, rooted in traditions yet alive
in the present. Curated by Tracie Revis, the
exhibit features designers Jamie Rolland-Hill, Julia
Wakeford, Luann Bear (Ms. Muscogee Nation
Royalty), and photographers Jave Bjorkman,
Jessica Whitely, and Matt Odom. Designs are
modeled by Harmony Apel, Jamie Rolland-Hill, and
Jariah Eyachabbe.
Jamie stands along the Ocmulgee River wearing
a full buckskin dress made by the late Ramona
Mason and on loan from her granddaughter,
Julia Wakeford. Before contact with settlers, both
women and men wore buckskin garments, often
adorned to re ect clan or marital status. Women
frequently went uncovered, for practicality and
used jewelry and tattoos as decoration and detail
as expressions of identity and status.
Photographed by Jessica Whitley
