ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — An Asheville church is bringing attention to local missing and murdered Indigenous women with a visual art installation.
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church re-created the “Red Dress Project.” The red dresses stand empty, symbolizing the women who are no longer present. The display represents 35 missing and murdered women from the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee.
“It’s kind of strange to look up on the wall and see something that has hung in your closet and it to be a symbol of someone who’s not around anymore someone’s been taken from their family and so I think there’s a real connection there to our shared humanity, but also people who no longer have life or the ability to be with their families anymore,” said Deacon Katie Rivers, director of Discipleship and Faith Formation at St. Mark’s…