GOOGLE JUMP CREATOR PROJECT WITH AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN AND WENDY RED STAR, RECIPIENT OF A MCARTHUR / SUNDANCE INSTITUTE AWARD

“The centerpiece of Wendy Red Star’s exhibition at New Jersey’s Newark Museum, “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth,” is a sweat lodge. It’s not a ceremonial sweat lodge per se—that would be complicated for a lot of reasons. What Red Star has built is an artwork that she calls Sweat Lodge, a geodesic dome covered with Pendleton blankets and sleeping bags and various cut-and-sewn fabrics.

Like a sweat lodge, it’s a work you can enter into, literally, as you undo the sleeping bag zipper that serves as the threshold to the piece at the very center of the museum’s new special exhibition gallery. And here’s one of the best things about it: It really does call to you—not just by its appearance, but by a certain sound that haunts the building’s second floor. It’s a sound that is, improbably, coming from inside Sweat Lodge—and is (we are not making this up!) the wind…”

Continue reading this article about the project in VOGUE