EVAN DUCHARME
Area of Expertise: Fashion
"I don’t make my work for the mainstream fashion industry anymore, I make it for the community, I make it for myself, I make it for the ancestors, I make it for my family."
Evan Ducharme is a multidisciplinary Métis artist with ancestral ties to the Cree, Ojibwe, and Saulteaux peoples, and was raised in the historic Métis community of St. Ambroise, Manitoba (Treaty 1 Territory). Launched in 2012, his eponymous clothing label, Evan Ducharme, examines dress through Indigenous perspectives on gender, queerness, and environmental responsibility. The label applies ancestral and contemporary Indigenous knowledges to garments that affirm a modern representation of Indigenous peoples within fashion.